Two of a Kind!

The tale of two powerful women, both belongs to a powerful political family. One is outgoing and over ambitious, other preferred the backstage. Both are wife of the former head of state of their respective countries. Being in limelight, they maintain a good equation of  hate and love ratio with the masses. Often it is higher side and sometime is below par. It is all about Sonia Gandhi and Hillary Clinton, lots of common going between them but they are totally two different individuals with different attitude towards the life.

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi, was known as Antonia Edvige Albina Maino. She was born on 9 December 1946, in Contrada Maini,  at Lusiana, a little village 30 km from Vicenza in Veneto,  Italy.  At present, she is the  President of the Indian National Congress, one of the major political parties of India.

She met Rajiv Gandhi, who was enrolled in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in 1965.  Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi married in 1968, following which she moved into the Delhi, to her mother-in-law and then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

After Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in 1991, she was invited by the Indian National Congress to take over the Congress but refused and publicly stayed away from politics amidst constant prodding by the Congress. She finally agreed to join politics in 1997; in 1998, she was elected as the leader of the Congress.

She has served as the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, on being re-elected for the fourth time, she became the longest serving president in the 125-year history of the Congress party. Her foreign birth has been a subject of much debate and controversy. Although Sonia is actually the fifth foreign-born person to be leader of the Congress Party, she is the first since independence in 1947.

In the 2004 general elections, Gandhi launched a nationwide campaign, thru the country. In the election, she won by a large margin in the Rae Bareilly constituency. Following the unexpected defeat of the NDA, she was widely expected to be the next Prime Minister of India. On 16 May, she was unanimously chosen to lead a 15-party coalition government with the support of the left, which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance(UPA).

The defeated NDA protested once against her 'foreign origin' and senior NDA leader Sushma Swaraj threatened to shave her head and "sleep on the ground", among other things, should Sonia become prime minister. The NDA also claimed that there were legal reasons that barred her from the Prime Minister's post. They pointed, in particular, to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1955, which they claimed implied 'reciprocity'. This was contested by others and eventually the suits were dismissed by the Supreme Court of India. A few days after the election, Gandhi appointed Manmohan Singh as prime minister.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton,  born October 26, 1947, that make her a year younger than Sonia Gandhi. A native of Illinois, she embarked on a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973.  She moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975.

In 1978  Bill Clinton elected as Governor of Arkansas, Hillary became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979.  On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to a daughter, Chelsea, her only child. In 1993, Bill Clinton took office as president of USA, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States. On January 3, 2001,

She was sworn in as United States Senator from New York.

Hillary was elected as a U.S. Senator in 2000. That election  marked the first time an American First Lady had run for public office; Clinton was also the first female senator to represent the state. Senator Clinton was reelected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Hillary Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost to Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

Obama went on to win the election and appoint Clinton as Secretary of State; Clinton became the first former First Lady to serve in a president's cabinet.

!!!Both are incredible, in politics its needs a special ability to stay on top!!!