INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS
No. Name of President Year of Presidency Place of Conference
1 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1885 Bombay
2 Dadabhai Naoroji 1886 Calcutta
3 Badruddin Tyabji 1887 Madras
4 George Yule 1888 Allahabad
5 William Wedderburn 1889 Bombay
6 Pherozeshah Mehta 1890 Calcutta
7 Anandacharlu 1891 Nagpur
8 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1892 Allahabad
9 Dadabhai Naoroji 1893 Lahore
10 Alfred Webb 1894 Madras
11 Surendranath Banerjee 1895 Poona
12 DIMENSIONSRahimtulla M. Sayani 1896 Calcutta
13 C. Sankaran Nair 1897 Amravati
14 Anandamohan Bose 1898 Madras INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS
15 Romesh Chunder Dutt 1899 Lucknow
16 N. G. Chandavarkar 1900 Lahore
17 Dinshaw Edulji Wacha 1901 Calcutta
18 Surendranath Banerjee 1902 Ahmedabad
19 Lalmohan Ghosh 1903 Madras
20 Henry Cotton 1904 Bombay
21 Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1905 Benares
22 Dadabhai Naoroji 1906 Calcutta
23 Rashbihari Ghosh 1907 Surat
24 Rashbihari Ghosh 1908 Madras
25 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1909 Lahore
26 William Wedderburn 1910 Allahabad
27 DIMENSIONSBishan Narayan Dar 1911 Calcutta
28 Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar 1912 Bankipore
29 Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur 1913 Karachi INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS
30 Bhupendra Nath Bose 1914 Madras
31 Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 1915 Bombay
32 Ambica Charan Mazumdar 1916 Lucknow
33 Annie Besant 1917 Calcutta
34 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1918 Delhi
35 Syed Hasan Imam 1918 Bombay (Special Session)
36 Motilal Nehru 1919 Amritsar
37 Lala Lajpat Rai 1920 Calcutta (Special Session)
38 C. Vijayaraghavachariar 1920 Nagpur
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das (President)
39 1921 Ahmedabad Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President)
40 Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das 1922 Gaya
41 Mohammad Ali Jouhar 1923 Kakinada
42 Abul Kalam Azad 1923 Delhi (Special Session)
43 Mohandas Gandhi 1924 Belgaum
44 Sarojini Naidu 1925 Kanpur
45 DIMENSIONSS. Srinivasa Iyengar 1926 Gauhati
46 Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari 1927 Madras
47 Motilal Nehru 1928 Calcutta
48 Jawaharlal Nehru 1929 & 30 Lahore
49 Vallabhbhai Patel 1931 Karachi
50 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1932 Delhi
51 Nellie Sengupta 1933 Calcutta INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS
52 Rajendra Prasad 1934 & 35 Bombay
53 Jawaharlal Nehru 1936 Lucknow
54 Jawaharlal Nehru 1936 Faizpur
55 Subhas Chandra Bose 1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra Bose (resigned) 56 Rajendra Prasad replaced Bose after 1939 Tripuri near Jabalpur the session.
57 Abul Kalam Azad 1940–46 Ramgarh
58 J. B. Kripalani 1947 Meerut
Indian National Congress - Important Points:
Indian National Congress was founded in the year - 1885 Indian National Congress was founded by - Allan Octavian Hume First session of Indian National Congress was held at - Mumbai (1885) Who was the Viceroy of British India when the Indian Lord Dufferin National Congress was founded - During the early phase of its existence, i.e., 1885-1905 Independence from British rule Indian National Congress never made this demand - First woman president of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant (1917) First Indian woman president of Indian National Mrs Sarojini Naidu (1925) Congress - Woman Presidents of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant (1917), Mrs Sarojini Naidu (1925) and Mrs. Nellie Sengupta (1933) First split of Indian National Congress - 1907 at Surat session First Englishmen to become president of Indian George Yule (1888) National Congress - Youngest president of Indian National Congress - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad First Muslim to become president of Indian National Badrudin Tayabji (Madras, 1887) Congress - National Song, Vande Mataram was first sung in the Calcutta (1896) session of - First joint session of Indian National Congress and Lucknow (1916) Muslim League - Session of Indian National Congress where wearing of Mrs Annie Besant (1917) Khadi was madeDIMENSIONS compulsory for its workers- National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana was first sung in Calcutta (1911) the session of - The only session of Indian National Congress presided Belgaum (1924) over by Mahatma Gandhi - Session of Indian National Congress where demand 1929 at Lahore for complete independence was made - President of Indian National Congress at the time of Acharya J B Kriplani (1946) independence -