She converted her Congress party from the proud party of the independence movement into something that sometimes seemed little more than a bunch of family retainers.
No Indian leader since Mrs Gandhi has shown much interest in protecting the great felines, including the current head of her Congress Party, her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi.
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If she can arouse her sleepy Congress party she might make a mockery of the feel-good campaign and take the shine off the BJP's India.
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Mr. KILLI: Speaker Pelosi, her first obligation in the 110th Congress is to actually see her party reelected.
Some worry that her relations with Congress have become so dire that her own Trinamool party may leave the coalition.
When she returned to India in September and resumed her duties as president of the ruling Congress Party, the immediate crisis appeared to stabilise.
Mrs Gandhi's Congress party, headed by her daughter-in-law Sonia Gandhi, is in power in India at the moment and the paper suggests distributors may not be willing to antagonise it.
Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, won a hotly contested battle for the succession, largely because leaders of the Congress party thought they could manipulate her from behind the scenes.
The lower house, or Lok Sabha, was mostly empty when the vote took place, reports said, with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son and party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi - as well as other senior ministers - prominent among the absentees.
Lyngdoh, joking that he may be Italian (like Sonia Gandhi, Congress's leader, who launched her party's campaign this week with an address to a huge public rally).
Sonia Gandhi was unanimously re-elected President of India's Congress Party for the fourth time in 2010, making her the longest serving chief in the party's history.
These new members will also be among the party's most vulnerable incumbents in 2008, putting pressure on Pelosi to keep her party and its agenda in the mainstream in the 110th Congress.
India's Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi has refused to furnish details of her income tax, citing "security" concerns, officials say.
Because of her Italian origins, Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's ruling Congress party, is also being dragged into the dispute.
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Sonia Gandhi, his mother and president of the ruling Congress Party, is similarly reticent, perhaps stemming from early anxiety over her facility in Hindi and a wish to avoid personal attacks over her Italian birth.
The Hindu enclave was a canny choice by her faction of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI by its Indonesian initials) to hold its party congress.
Her frustration has grown to disenchantment with the Republican Party, which she says only supports big business and eventually led to her decision to run for Congress as a Democrat.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is leader of the Trinamool Congress party, another major Congress ally, is also against the decision to open up India's retail sector but whether her party would help defeat the government remains unclear.
In her first public speech since being treated for an undisclosed illness over the summer, Sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress party, called on the opposition to allow Parliament to work so it can pass the anti-graft legislation.
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