Mrs. Patil is a member of the Indian National Congress party and the United Progressive Alliance which is headed by Sonia Gandhi who is an Italian born Roman Catholic, the widow of assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The United Progressive Alliance is a coalition of left leaning parties that runs all the way from communists and socialists to moderate pro-capitalism center-leftists.
The current Indian government is an unholy alliance of Maoists/Communists/Socialists and their useful idiot moderate lapdogs.