SESSONS OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

SESSONS

OF

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

 

BEFORE INDEPENDENCE

In this article, we have published a list of all the sessions of the Indian national congress before the Indian Independence.

 

The Indian National Congress was formed in 1885 in Bombay which is now Mumbai.

 

The first president of the Indian National Congress was

Mr. W. C. Bonnerjee.

 

The sessions of the Indian National Congress were held at the gap of a year.

 

 

Sessions of Indian National Congress

The Founding Years (1885-1900)

Date	Place	President	Session
28-30 December 1885	Bombay NOW  MUMBAI	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	1st (MOST IMPORTANT FACT)
27-30 December 1886	Calcutta Now kolkata	Dadabhai Naoroji	2nd
27-30 December 1887	Madras NOW CHENNAI	Badruddin Tyyabji	3rd (first Muslim President)
26-29 December 1888	Allahabad Now Prayagraj	George Yule (first English President)	4th
26-28 December 1889	Bombay NOW  MUMBAI	Sir William Wedderburn	5th
26-30 December 1890	Calcutta	Pheroze  shah Mehta	6th
28-30 December 1891	Nagpur	P. Ananda Charlu	7th
28-30 December 1892	Allahabad	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	8th
27-30 December 1893	Lahore NOW IN PAKISTAN	Dadabhai Naoroji	9th
26-29 December 1894	Madras	Alfred Webb	10th
27-30 December 1895	Pune	Surendra nath Banerjee	11th
28-31 December 1896	Calcutta	Rahimatullah M. Sayani	12th
27-29 December 1897	Amraoti	C. Sankaran Nair	13th
29-31 December 1898	Madras	Ananda Mohan Bose	14th
27-29 December 1899	Lucknow	Romesh Chunder Dutt	15th
27-29 December 1900	Lahore	N.G. Chandavarkar	16th

The Pre Independece Era (1900-1947)

Date	Place	President	Session
26-28 December 1901	Calcutta	Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha	17th
28-30 December 1902	Ahmedabad	Surendra Nath Banerjee	18th
28-30 December 1903	Madras	Lal Mohan Ghosh	19th
26-28 December 1904	Bombay	Sir Henry Cotton	20th
27-30 December 1905	Banaras or Kashi	Gopal Krishna Gokhale	21st
26-29 December 1906	Calcutta	Dadabhai Naoroji	22nd
26-27 December 1907	Surat	Rash Behari Ghosh	23rd (Session Suspended)
28-30 December 1908	Madras	Rash Behari Ghosh	23rd
27-29 December 1909	Lahore	Madan Mohan Malviya	24th
26-29 December 1910	Allahabad	Sir William Wedderburn	25th
26-28 December 1911	Calcutta	Bishan Narayan Dar	26th
26-28 December 1912	Bankipore	Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar	27th
26-28 December 1913	Karachi	Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur	28th
14-15 April 1914	Madras	Bhupendra Nath Bose	29th
27-29 December 1915	Bombay	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha	30th
26-30 December 1916	Lucknow	Ambica Charan Mazumdar	31st
26-29 December 1917	Calcutta	Annie Besant (the first ever  woman to assume that position.)	32nd
26-30 December 1918	Delhi	Madan Mohan Malviya	33rd
29 August – 1 September 1918	Bombay	Romesh Chunder Dutt	Special Session
26-30 December 1919	Amritsar	Motilal Nehru	34th
26-30 December 1920	Nagpur	C. Vijaya raghavachariar	35th
27-28 December 1921	Ahmadabad	Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das)	36th
26-31 December 1922	Gaya	Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das	37th
4-8 September 1923	Delhi	Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad	Special session
26-27 December 1924	Belgaum	M.K. Gandhi FIRST AND LAST SESSION WHEN GANDHIJI BECAME PRESIDENT	39th
15-17 April 1925	Cawnpore	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress Party in 1925, the first ever INDIAN woman to assume that position.	40th
26-28 December 1926	Gawahati	S. Srinivasa Iyengar	41th
26-28 December 1927	Madras	M. A. Ansari	42nd
29 December 1928 – 1 January 1929	Calcutta	Motilal Nehru	43rd
16-18 April 1929	Lahore	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru  MOST IMPORTANT SESSION WHEN NEHRUJI DEMANDED Poorna Swaraj or complete independence	44th
21-31 March 1931	Karachi	Vallabhbhai J. Patel	45th
12-14 September 1933	Calcutta  Now Kolkata	Mrs. Nellie Sengupta	47th
24-28 October 1934	Bombay	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	48th
18-20 June 1936	Lucknow	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru	49th
12-14 July 1937	Faizpur	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru	50th
19-21 February 1938	Haripura (Surat district of Gujarat, India)	Subhash Chandra Bose	51st
10-12 March 1939	Tripuri Jabalpur (M.P.)	Subhash Chandra Bose	52nd
19-20 March 1940	Ramgarh	Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad	53rd
23-24 November 1946	Meerut	J.B. Kriplani	54th

J.B. Kriplani was the president of Indian National Congress

at the time of Indian independence.

He was a Gandhian Socialist,  mystic and freedom fighter, noted for his incorruptibility and determination.

 

  The Indian National Congress was formed as a safety valve for civil and political dialogue among literate Indians.