Polls-bound Sonia quits Rajiv Gandhi Foundation post

Barely a few days after quitting as chairperson of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust, Gandhi resigned on April 8 as the head of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF), established several years ago as a non-government body to work for social causes in memory of her late husband.

Gandhi's move is clearly aimed at playing it safe for her re-election bid from Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency slated for a bypoll on 8 May.

After coming under the office-of-profit cloud for holding the chairperson's post of the National Advisory Council with the rank of a Cabinet minister, Gandhi had resigned on 23 March from the NAC as well as from her membership of the Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli.