Sonia Gandhi: The enigma of silence

Sonia Gandhi is no Mahatma (although sycophantic Congressmen would have you believe otherwise), but her political career does parallel Gandhi's words of wisdom to aspiring netas. She was ignored in the Narasimha Rao years; she was ridiculed when she first entered politics (remember the famous 272 MPs gaffe); she was fought viciously on the foreign origins issue; and then she finally did win in 2004 when her inner voice told her not to aspire for the prime ministerial chair after the Congress pulled off a miraculous victory.

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