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Sonia effect: 12 yrs that changed Congress & Indian politics Updated - 15/3/2010 - indiannews.
Congress headquarters on Sunday wore a deserted look. With government establishments closed and almost all office-bearers enjoying the weekend or out in the "field", the crowd of party workers and favour-seekers who throng 24, Akbar Road were missing. For Congress members, though, it was no ordinary day. It was exactly 12 years ago that Sonia Gandhi was appointed party chief, in a development that stemmed Congress’s downward slide, helped it recapture the Dilli Durbar after nearly a decade-long power drought and put the party on the road to re-capturing the pre-eminence it seemed to have lost. Twelve years, to paraphrase former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, may be a long time in politics, but few would have imagined the turnaround in the party’s fortunes Sonia has scripted since the day when members of Congress Working Committee, deeply worried about the existential crisis facing the party, turned against the incumbent Sitaram Kesri to hand over the organisational reins to her.
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