Important Session of Congress

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Year	Presidents	Venue
1885	W.C. Bannerjee – A.O.Huem was the founder of INC. He was a Civil Servent. He was also a General Secretary of INC. Lord Dufferine was the Vice Roy of India(1884-1888). Lord Dufferien insulted INC by saying it “institute of microscopic minority’’. Surendranath Bannerji not attended this session	Bombay(Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Vidyalay)-72 Delegates
1886	Dadabhai Naoroji – Indian National Conference changed into INC	Calcutta
1887	Badruddin Tyabji – First Muslim President	Madras
1888	George Yule	Allahabad
1889	Sir William Wedderburn – “British Committee of India” is a Committee of INC in London . It also publish INDIA, a weekly newspaper.	Bombay
1890	Pherozshah Mehta	Calcutta
1891	P. Ananda Charlu	Nagpur
1892	W.C. Bannerjee	Allahabad
1893	Dadabhai Naoroji	Lahore
1894	Alfred Webb	Madras
1895	S.N. Banerjea	Poona
1896	Rahimtulla M Sayani	Calcutta
1897	C. Sankaran nair	Amravati
1898	Ananda Mohan Bose	Madras
1899	R.C Dutt	Lucknow
1900	N.G. Chandavarkar	Lahore
1901	D.E. Wacha- Attended by Gandhiji for the first time	Calcutta
1902	Hasan Imam, S.N Bonerjea	Bombay, Ahmedabad
1903	Lal Mohan Ghose	Madras
1904	Sir Henry Cotton	Bombay
1905	G.K Gokhale – Political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi. Established “SERVANTS OF INDIA SOCIETY” in 1905. Congress propose for SWARAJ first time.	Benaras
1906	Dadabhai Naoroji – known as “GRAND OLD MAN OF INDIA”. Auther of “POVERTY AND UNBRITISH RULE IN INDIA” book. He was first Indian to be elected as member of LIBERAL PARTY in 1892. He establish “London Union Association”(1862) and “East India Association”. Asked for SWARAJ, and put it as national demand. Four Objectives- SWADESHI, BOYCOTT, NATIONAL EDUCATION, SELF-GOVERNANCE.	Calcutta
1907	Dr Rash Behari Ghosh(suspended) Congress got divided into Extremist and Moderate.	Surat
1908	Dr Rash Behari Ghosh	Madras
1909	Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya	Lahore
1910	Sir William Wedderburn	Allahabad
1911	Pandit B.N Dar- National Anthem “JANA GANA MANA” first sung by Rabindra Nath Tagore	Calcutta
1912	R.N. Mudholkar- A.O. Huem was called the father of Congress -27th session of INC	Bankipore
1913	Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur	Karachi
1914	Bhupendra Nath Basu	Madras
1915	Lord Satyendra Prasad Singha – Lord Willington(Governor of Bombay) participated in this session.	Bombay
1916	Ambica Charan Majumdar – Joint session of Congress with Muslim league in which the historic Lucknow pact was signed. Extremist rejoined Moderate.  Bal Gangadhar Tilak slogan-“SWARAJ IS MY BIRTH-RIGHT, AND I WILL HAVE IT” Gandhiji first time indulgence with farmers that led to Champaran Satyagraha.	Lucknow
1917	Dr. Annie Besant	Calcutta
1918	Hassan Imam (special session)	-
1918	Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya	Delhi
1919	Motilal Nehru	Amritsar
1920	Lala Lajpat Rai (suspended) C.Vijayraghavachariar (annual)	Calcutta Nagpur
1921	C.R Das (in prison) Hakim Ajmal Khan(acting)	Ahmedabad
1922	Desbhandu Chittaranjan Das-	Gaya
1923	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (suspended) Muaulana Mohammad Ali(annual)	Kakinada
1924	Mahatma Ghandi	Belgaum
1925	Mrs Sarojini naidu	Cawnpore
1926	S. Srinivasa lyengar	Guwahati
1927	Dr. M A Ansari	Madras
1928	Pandit Motilal Nehur	Calcutta
1929	Jawaharlal Nehru	Lahore
1930	(no session) but Independece Day Pledge was adopted on 26th January 1930.	-
1931	Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel	Karachi
1932	R. Amritlal (session was banned)	-
1933	Mrs. J. M Sen Gupta(session was banned)	Calcutta
1934	Dr Rajendra Prasad(continued again for 1935)	Bombay
1936	Jawaharlal Nehru	Lucknow
1937	Jawaharlal Nehru	Faizpur
1938	S.C Bose- Advocated to adopt Roman script for Hindi language. National Employment Committee was established and presided over by Jawahar Lal Nehru	Haripur
1939	S.C Bose(re-elected for 1939)	Tripuri
1940	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	Ramgarh
1941-45	(No session caused by arrest and Jailing)	-
1946	Acharya J. B kripalani – Also during the period of Independence	Merrut
1948	B. Pattabhi Sitamayya	Jaipur

NOTE :

1.  IN 1900, Lord Curzon was said “Congress patan ke liye larkhara rahi hai, Meri sabse bari abhilasha hai 

ki mai jab tak bharat mai hoon congress ki sampoorn samapti mai sahyog karna hai”.

2.  Sir Sayed Ahmad was opposed to INC during its formation.

3.  Mahatma Gandhi advice to congress leader  “The INC  should be dissolved after the independence of India”.