India’s Sonia Gandhi hospitalised with COVID issues

Italian-born Gandhi, widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is the longest-serving president of the Congress celebration.

Gandhi, 76, is credited with reviving the Congress Celebration when it received a shock victory in legislative elections in 2004 [File: B Mathur/Reuters]

The chief of India’s important opposition celebration, Sonia Gandhi, has been admitted to hospital in New Delhi with well being points associated to COVID-19.

Her celebration tweeted the announcement on Sunday however gave no different particulars. Gandhi examined optimistic for COVID-19 on June 2.

Italian-born Gandhi, the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is the longest-serving president of the Congress Celebration, which dominated India for many years after its founders led the nation to independence from British colonial rule in 1947.

Her parliamentarian son Rahul Gandhi additionally served because the Congress president. Based in 1885, Congress is India’s oldest political celebration and dominated the nation for many years after independence, led by generations of the Nehru-Gandhi household.

Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital resulting from Covid associated points.
We want her speedy restoration and good well being.

— Congress (@INCIndia) June 12, 2022

Sonia Gandhi, 76, is credited with reviving the Congress Celebration when it received a shock victory in legislative elections in 2004.

Following that election success, she would have grow to be India’s first foreign-born and first Roman Catholic prime minister, however she stunned everybody by turning down the highest publish and nominating economist Manmohan Singh to be prime minister.

In recent times, Gandhi has travelled a number of instances to america to take care of well being points.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) dealt the Congress Celebration consecutive defeats in nationwide polls in 2014 and 2019.

Whereas Congress managed to win a mere 44 seats within the 543-member parliament in 2014, polls final 12 months didn't see any revival in its fortunes, and the celebration secured simply 52 seats.

The celebration now controls only a handful of India’s 28 states.