Reply #87: Italian born wife of the late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

became one of the leaders of the Congress Party, and will become Prime Minister if her party wins a majority.

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi’s opponents have looked exceedingly foolish and nationalistic. It is scarcely surprising that Hindu nationalists should look to the United States, which forbids its presidency to anyone not born in the country, as the example that India should emulate. One would have thought that, in this matter as in most others, the United States sets the standard not for freedom or liberality of interpretation but for jingoism and provincialism.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Independent/Sonia.html