Indian National Congress Sessions- List of Indian National Congress Presidents

The Indian National Congress (INC) was established in 1885 and it grew to become one of the most important political parties in pre-independence India. Starting as an organisation comprising only of the educated elite in India, it later became a party of commoners with prominent leaders like Lajpat Rai, Tilak, Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, etc. as its members.

      

Indian National Congress Sessions

Indian National Congress founders: Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885. 

The list of Indian National Congress sessions with their Presidents are given in the table below:

YearLocationPresidentImportance
1885BombayW C Bonnerjee1st session attended by 72 delegates
1886CalcuttaDadabhai NaorojiNational Congress and National Conference
1887MadrasSyed Badruddin TyabjiAppeal made to Muslims to join hands with other national leaders
1888AllahabadGeorge YuleFirst English president
1889BombaySir William Wedderburn
1890CalcuttaFeroz Shah Mehta
1891NagpurP. Ananda Charlu
1892AllahabadW C Bonnerjee
1893LahoreDadabhai Naoroji
1894MadrasAlfred Webb
1895PoonaSurendranath Banerjee
1896CalcuttaRahimtullah M. SayaniNational song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time
1897AmravatiC. Sankaran Nair
1898MadrasAnanda Mohan Bose
1899LucknowRomesh Chandra Dutt
1900LahoreN G Chandavarkar
1901CalcuttaDinshaw E. Wacha
1902AhmedabadSurendranath Banerjee
1903MadrasLal Mohan Ghosh
1904BombaySir Henry Cotton
1905BenaresGopal Krishna GokhaleExpressed resentment against the partition of Bengal
1906CalcuttaDadabhai Naoroji
1907SuratRash Behari GhoshParty splits into extremists and moderates
1908MadrasRash Behari GhoshPrevious session continued
1909LahoreMadan Mohan MalaviyaIndian Councils Act, 1909
1910AllahabadSir William Wedderburn
1911CalcuttaBishan Narayan Dar‘Jana Gana Mana’ sung for the first time
1912Bankipore (Patna)Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar
1913KarachiSyed Mohammed Bahadur
1914MadrasBhupendra Nath Basu
1915BombaySatyendra Prasanna Sinha
1916LucknowAmbica Charan MazumdarLucknow Pact – joint session with the Muslim League
1917CalcuttaAnnie BesantFirst woman president of the INC
1918Bombay And DelhiSyed Hasan Imam (bombay) And Madan Mohan Malaviya (delhi)Two sessions were held. First in Bombay in August/September Second in Delhi in December
1919AmritsarMotilal Nehru
1920NagpurC Vijayaraghavachariar
1921AhmedabadHakim Ajmal Khan (acting President For C R Das)
1922GayaC R Das
1923KakinadaMaulana Mohammad Ali,
1924BelgaumM K Gandhi
1925KanpurSarojini NaiduFirst Indian woman president
1926GuwahatiS Srinivasa Iyengar
1927MadrasM A Ansari
1928CalcuttaMotilal NehruAll India Youth Congress formed
1929LahoreJawaharlal NehruResolution for ‘Poorna Swaraj.’ Civil Disobedience movement for complete independence to be launched, 26 January to be observed as ‘Independence Day’.
1930No Session
1931KarachiVallabhbhai PatelResolution on fundamental rights and national economic progress. Gandhi-Irwin pact endorsed. Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the second round table conference
1932DelhiAmrit Ranchhorddas Seth
1933CalcuttaMalaviya Was Elected But Mrs Nellie Sengupta Presided
1934BombayRajendra Prasad
1936LucknowJawaharlal Nehru
1937FaizpurJawaharlal NehruFirst session to be held in a village
1938HaripuraSubhas Chandra BoseNational planning committee set up under Nehru
1939TripuriSubhas Chandra BoseBose was elected but had to resign since Gandhi supported Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Instead Rajendra Prasad was appointed
1940RamgarhAbul Kalam Azad
1941-45No session because of arrest
1946MeerutAcharya KripalaniLast session before independence
1948JaipurPattabhi SitaramayyaFirst session after independence
1950NashikPurushottam Das Tandon
1951DelhiJawaharlal Nehru
1953HyderabadJawaharlal Nehru
1954KalyaniJawaharlal Nehru
1955Avadi(madras)U. N. Dhebar
1956AmritsarU. N. Dhebar
1958GauhatiU. N. Dhebar
1959NagpurIndira Gandhi
1960BangaloreNeelam Sanjeeva Reddy
1961BhavnagarNeelam Sanjeeva Reddy
1962BhubaneshwarDamodaran Sanjvayya
1963PatnaDamodaran Sanjvayya
1964BhubaneshwarK. Kamaraj
1965DurgapurK. Kamaraj


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