SESSIONS OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
Modern History
1885 – Bombay
President: W.C. Bonnerjee
- First INC Session; formation of Congress.
1886 – Calcutta
President: Dadabhai Naoroji
1887 – Madras
President: Syed Badruddin Tyabji
- First Muslim President.
1888 – Allahabad
President: George Yule
- First English President.
1896 – Calcutta
President: Rahimtullah Sayani
- ‘Vande Mataram’ sung first time by Rabindranath Tagore.
1899 – Lucknow
President: Romesh Chandra Dutt
- Demand for permanent land revenue fixation.
1901 – Calcutta
President: Dinshaw Wacha
- Gandhi’s first Congress appearance.
1905 – Benaras
President: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Formal proclamation of Swadeshi Movement.
1906 – Calcutta
President: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Resolutions: Swaraj, Boycott, Swadeshi, National Education.
1907 – Surat
President: Rash Behari Ghosh
- Congress split (Moderates vs Extremists).
1910 – Allahabad
President: Sir William Wedderburn
- Jinnah criticised separate electorates.
1911 – Calcutta
President: B.N. Dhar
- First recital of 'Jana Gana Mana'.
1915 – Bombay
President: Sir S.P. Sinha
- Extremists readmitted to Congress.
1916 – Lucknow
President: A.C. Majumdar
- Unity between Moderates & Extremists.
- Lucknow Pact with Muslim League.
1917 – Calcutta
President: Annie Besant
- First Woman President (overall).
1918 – Bombay (Special Session)
President: Syed Hasan Imam
- Discussed Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms.
1919 – Amritsar
President: Motilal Nehru
- Congress support to Khilafat Movement.
1920 – Calcutta (Special Session)
President: Lala Lajpat Rai
- Gandhi moved Non-Cooperation Resolution.
1920 – Nagpur
President: C. Vijayaraghavachariar
- Congress reorganised on linguistic basis.
- Jinnah left INC.
1922 – Gaya
President: C.R. Das
- Swaraj Party formed.
1924 – Belgaum
President: M.K. Gandhi
- Only session presided by Gandhi.
1925 – Kanpur
President: Sarojini Naidu
- First Indian Woman President.
1927 – Madras
President: Dr. M.A. Ansari
- Opposed Simon Commission.
- First call for Purna Swaraj.
1928 – Calcutta
President: Motilal Nehru
- All India Youth Congress formed.
1929 – Lahore
President: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Purna Swaraj Resolution.
- 26 January declared Independence Day.
1931 – Karachi
President: Vallabhbhai Patel
- Resolutions on Fundamental Rights, Economic Policy.
- Endorsed Gandhi–Irwin Pact.
1934 – Bombay
President: Rajendra Prasad
- Constitutional amendments within Congress.
1936 – Lucknow
President: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Push towards socialist ideas.
1937 – Faizpur
President: Jawaharlal Nehru
- First INC session held in a village.
1938 – Haripura
President: Subhas Chandra Bose
- National Planning Committee formed under Nehru.
1939 – Tripuri
President: Rajendra Prasad
- Bose re-elected but resigned; formation of Forward Bloc.
1940 – Ramgarh
President: Abul Kalam Azad
- Civil Disobedience to be revived at right time.
1941–45
- No sessions due to Quit India Movement, INA trials, WWII events.
1946 – Meerut
President: J.B. Kripalani
- Last INC session before Independence.
- Kripalani was INC president at time of Independence.
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