Was the all powerful UPA chair person and Congress president a bar girl before she met Rajiv Gandhi at a London bar near Cambridge?She is painted as an illiterate without formal education and very little knowledge of English by a section of media. A latest feature article in a local popular Telugu daily says that Sonia had poor education and also knew very little English as she hailed from the family of an Italian mason who built houses in suburban London townships.Author says that Sonia Gandhi alias Antonia Edvige Albina Maino worked as a waitress at the college bar in the Trinity College of Cambridge University where Rajiv Gandhi elder son of former PM Indira Gandhi was an engineering student. It is said that Indira Gandhi had rejected the proposal of their wedding initially but had finally agreed as Rajiv Gandhi was hell bent on marrying her and 'completely under Sonia influence' says the author, 'It is nothing but a slander campaign against Sonia Gandhi who is one of the eight top women personalities in the world 'says analysts

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