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Transcript: Profile: Sonia Gandhi, who is poised to become Indian prime minister
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- May 15, 2004
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LINDA WERTHEIMER
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
05-15-2004
Profile: Sonia Gandhi, who is poised to become Indian prime minister
Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
In India, Sonia Gandhi is at the threshold of becoming only the second woman ever to lead the world's largest democracy. Gandhi is the daughter-in-law of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, also prime minister assassinated during a campaign stop in 1991. Sonia Gandhi would be the first Christian and the first foreign-born prime minister of India. Today, Gandhi's Congress Party chose her as their leader. That's the first step to being prime minister of the ...