Sonia Gandhi is contesting the panchayat election from Munnar in Kerala. Yes, you read that right. And here's more, she is a BJP candidate. Let that sink in, because there is a Congress connection too. And then her "marriage" to the BJP.

In the hill station of Munnar in Kerala, the BJP has fielded "Sonia Gandhi" as its candidate for the Nallathanni ward (Ward 16) of the local panchayat, reported the Kottayam-based Manorama. No, not the Congress MP, Sonia Gandhi, but, in Munnar, the BJP has fielded 34-year-old Sonia Gandhi from Nallathanni Kallar, whose life and politics have had rather a different path.

A namesake of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the BJP's Sonia was born to the late Dure Raj, a local labourer and Congress leader. In a moment of admiration, and perhaps pride, he named his

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