Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X, “Birthday greetings to Smt. Sonia Gandhi Ji. May she be blessed with a long life and good health.”
- Sonia Gandhi turned 79 on December 9, 2025, and currently serves as Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson and a Rajya Sabha MP.
- Congress leaders hailed the party’s longest-serving president, crediting her stewardship with rights-based laws such as MGNREGA, the Right to Information, the Right to Education, and the National Food Security Act.
- Party president Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC general secretary K. C. Venugopal, and Tamil Nadu chief minister M. K. Stalin were among those posting tributes praising her leadership.
- Coverage noted her step-back from day-to-day politics for health reasons and described Modi’s greeting as a rare public civility between the rival parties.