For years, Sonia was criticised as a foreigner who could not legitimately lead India. In Delhi’s social circles, she was sometimes derided as “the Italian au pair”. A person of foreign origin becoming prime minister, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj declared in 2004, “would be an insult to the nation”- she vowed to resign, tonsure her head, wear white and live as an ascetic if Sonia took the job.
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