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Apr 9, 2009: The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday revealed Congress chief Sonia Gandhi was on the hit list of terror group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE).

The Home Ministry has asked all states, especially southern ones, to beef up Sonia's security during election campaigns.

Earlier, Sonia's husband, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, had lost his life in a LTTE suicide bomb attack during a poll rally in Tamil Nadu in 1991.

The Congress president is also on the hit list of other militant outfits Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), as informed by the intelligence agencies earlier.

Meanwhile, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) too warned banks in Kerala of likely LTTE strike as the terror group has been lacking monetary funds following its war with Sri Lankan Army for quite some time now.  

Background

Born as Edvige Antonia Albina Maino in Lusiana, Italy on December 9, 1946, Sonia Gandhi entered politics after the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

She steered Congress to power in the 2004 general elections.

She is also the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)

Sonia Gandhi had contested from Rae Bareilly in 2004 and won with a huge margin.

After the office of profit controversy, she resigned from the Parliament in 2007. Sonia later won the bye election by over four lakh votes.

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