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United Progressive Alliance
{{Infobox Indian political party , party_name = United Progressive Alliance , native_name = {{IAST3, Saṁyukt Pragatiśīl Gaṭhabandhan , abbreviation = UPA , logo = United Progressive Alliance logo.svg , founder = Sonia Gandhi , colorcode = {{party color, Indian National Congress , formerchairman = Sonia Gandhi (last) , incumbent = , formerpm = Manmohan Singh (2004–2014) , eci = , national_convener = , no_of_members = 19 Parties , foundation = {{start date and age, df=yes, 2004, 05, 06 , dissolution = {{end date and age, df=y, 2023, 07, 18 , successor = Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) , position = Centre to centre-left , ideology = {{ubl, class=nowrap, , Majority: , Big tent{{cite book, author=Lowell Barrington, title=Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uuAta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi ('' née'' Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former Prime Minister of India, and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. She returned to the post in 2019 and remained the President for another three years. Born in a small village near Vicenza, Italy, Gandhi was raised in a Roman Catholic family. After completing her primary education at local schools, she moved for language classes to Cambridge, England, where she met Rajiv Gandhi, and later married him in 1968. She then moved to India and started living with her mother-in-law, the then- Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, at the latter's New Delhi residence. Sonia Gandhi, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
