Sonia Gandhi's husband and his mother before him picked the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
All that may be so, but it would be premature to count Sonia Gandhi out.
The prime ministership was bestowed on Mr Singh by Sonia Gandhi, the party's Italian-born leader.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has addressed a number of public meetings in northern Rajasthan state.
Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi promised the woman's death would not be "in vain".
Its leader, Sonia Gandhi, met Miss Jayalalitha at a well-publicised tea party last week.
The leader of the main opposition Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, has already launched an attack on the government's claims.
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India's Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi has refused to furnish details of her income tax, citing "security" concerns, officials say.
Last week, Gandhi's political heir, Sonia Gandhi, resigned as president of the Congress party four months before a general election.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party Chief Sonia Gandhi visited the injured Sunday in Raipur, the state capital of Chhattisgarh.
Sonia Gandhi (No. 12), a native Italian, studied English in Cambridge.
Now the question on many minds is whether Sonia Gandhi has the wherewithal to stay in the game - let alone win it.
India's governing Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi is recovering after undergoing "successful" surgery abroad for an undisclosed medical condition, a party spokesman has said.
The chief of the ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi has backed Mr Singh and has criticised the opposition for holding the parliament "to ransom".
She said she would try to meet Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and other leaders to press for sending doctors from India to treat Singh.
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Meanwhile, Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv, a former prime minister, is set formally to take over the leadership of the Congress party from Sitaram Kesri.
Since she does not hold a ministerial post, Sonia Gandhi can appear detached from government policy, and row back from difficult decisions when they prove unpopular.
Hours later, Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born president of the ruling Congress party, slammed Rome's decision to not return the marines to face trial as promised.
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.
It does not help that the ageing Mr Singh has little clout of his own: he reports to the ailing Sonia Gandhi, the dynastic chief of Congress.
Still others say the fabled Delhi diarchy - Mr Singh would run the government, while the powerful Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi ran the party - has failed.
Even if Mr Singh now favours the pursuit of freer trade, Sonia Gandhi, boss of the Congress family firm, with its roots in the countryside, may well overrule him.
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.
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul's mother, is the current party president.
Italian-born Sonia Gandhi now bears India's most-revered political name.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who along with the Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi visited the wounded in the hospital a day after the attack, said India would "never bow down" before the rebels.
And He was defended by figures no less than Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India, and Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress party, who journeyed to pay their respects before his state funeral.
There are just five women on that list: Angela Merkel (No. 6), Sonia Gandhi (No. 9), Dilma Rousseff (No. 16), Hillary Clinton (No. 20) and Oprah Winfrey (No. 64).
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Since then, annual lectures at the centre have been given by world figures including former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and Sonia Gandhi, leader of India's Congress Party.
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.
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