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Q& A<br />

Wallpaper<br />

Wins FreeDOM FrOM a series<br />

Year Venue President importance<br />

1885 Bombay W.C.Bannerjee<br />

1st session attended by 72 delegates<br />

Venue – Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit<br />

College<br />

First Secretary - A.O.Hume<br />

1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji · First Parsi President<br />

1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji<br />

· Presided by first Muslim President<br />

· First South Indian city where the<br />

INC session held<br />

1888 Allahabad George Yule · Presided by first Foreign President<br />

1889 Bombay<br />

Sir William<br />

Wedderburn<br />

1890 Calcutta Sir Feroze Shah Mehta<br />

1891 Nagpur P.Ananda Charlu<br />

1893 Lahore Dadabhai Naoroji<br />

1896 Calcutta Rahimtulla.M. Sayani<br />

· Session in which G.P. Pillai<br />

attended (First Malayalee)<br />

· British Committee of INC founded<br />

· First woman to address the INC<br />

session – Kadambini Ganguly<br />

· Presided by first South Indian<br />

President<br />

· The session in which Dadabhai<br />

Naoroji presided for the second time<br />

· The National Song, Vande Mataram<br />

was sung for the first time. (Sung<br />

by - Tagore)<br />

1897 Amaravati C.Sankaran Nair · Presided by first Malayalee<br />

1901 Calcutta Dinshaw Edulji Wacha · Gandhiji attended for the first time<br />

1905 Banaras<br />

Gopala Krishna<br />

Gokhale<br />

· The slogan ‘Swadeshi’ was raised<br />

for the first time<br />

· INC president at the time of partition<br />

of Bengal<br />

1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji · Resolution’ Swaraj’ was presented<br />

1907 Surat Rashbihari Ghosh<br />

· The INC split into two, one<br />

consisting of Moderates, led by<br />

Gokhale and the other consisting of<br />

Extremists, led by Tilak.<br />

1908 Madras Rashbihari Ghosh<br />

· Rashbihari Ghosh Presided in two<br />

successive sessions of INC.<br />

1911 Calcutta<br />

1912 Bankipore<br />

Pandit Bishan Narayan<br />

Dar<br />

Raghunath Narasinha<br />

Mudholkar<br />

1916 Lucknow A.C.Majumdar<br />

· The National Anthem, Jana Gana<br />

Mana was sung for the first time<br />

(Sung by Saraladevi Chaudary)<br />

· Jawaharlal Nehru attended for the<br />

first time<br />

· Lucknow Pact was signed.<br />

· Re-union of the Congress<br />

· Joint Session of INC & Muslim league<br />

1917 Calcutta Annie Besant · First session to be presided by a Lady.<br />

1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru<br />

First Session held after Jalianwala<br />

Bagh Massacre<br />

1920 Calcutta Lala Lajpat Rai<br />

INC session decided to start Non<br />

co-operation movement (Special<br />

Session)<br />

1920 Nagpur C.Vijayraghavachariar Non Co-operation movement started.<br />

1921 Ahmedabad Hakkim Ajmal Khan<br />

Acting President for C.R.Das<br />

First Acting President<br />

1922 Gaya C.R.Das Formed Swaraj Party<br />

inc (1885-2018)<br />

Year Venue President importance<br />

1923 Delhi Abdul Kalam Azad Youngest President (special.session)<br />

1923 Kakinada<br />

Mohammad Ali<br />

Jouhar<br />

Presented the resolution for the<br />

eradication of untouchability by<br />

T.K.Madhavan<br />

1924 Belgaum Gandhiji · First session presided by Gandhiji<br />

1925 Kanpur Sarojini Naidu<br />

· First session to be presided by an<br />

Indian lady.<br />

· Selected Hindi as the official<br />

language of INC<br />

1927 Madras M.A. Ansari · Passed to boycott Simon Commission<br />

1929 Lahore Jawahar Lal Nehru<br />

· The decision to launch a Civil<br />

Disobedience Movement to<br />

achieve complete Independence<br />

and to observe 26 January as<br />

Independence Day was taken<br />

· Nehru became the President for<br />

the first time.<br />

1931 Karachi Vallabhai Patel<br />

· The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was<br />

endorsed by the Congress<br />

· Gandhiji was nominated to<br />

represent Congress in the Second<br />

Round Table Conference.<br />

· Resolution on fundamental rights<br />

was passed<br />

1932 Delhi<br />

Madan Mohan<br />

Malaviya<br />

· First Session Banned by the British<br />

1934 Bombay Dr. Rajendra Prasad<br />

· Gandhiji Officially resigned from INC<br />

· Socialist Party was Formed<br />

1938 Haripura<br />

1939 Tripuri<br />

Subhash Chandra<br />

Bose<br />

Subhash Chandra<br />

Bose<br />

· National Planning Committe was<br />

set-up under Nehru<br />

NandaLalBose introduced his<br />

painting named ‘village Drummer’.<br />

· First Presidential election was<br />

conducted in this session<br />

· S.K.Pottakkad attended.<br />

1942 Mumbai Abdul Kalam Azad · Resolution for Quit-India Movement<br />

1947 Meerut Acharya J.B.Kripalani<br />

· Session at the time of Indian<br />

independence<br />

1948 Jaipur<br />

1950 Nasik<br />

Dr.Pattabhi<br />

Sitaramayya<br />

Purushottam Das<br />

Tandon<br />

· First session after Independence.<br />

Official Historian of INC<br />

· Session at the time of Republic<br />

1955 Avadi U.N. Dhebar · INC adopted a socialist Pattern<br />

1959 Delhi Indira Gandhi<br />

· Presided by first women after<br />

independence (Special Session)<br />

1985<br />

-91<br />

Bombay Rajiv Gandhi · 1985-100 th anniversary of INC<br />

1996<br />

-98<br />

Sitaram Kesari · Eldest President after independence<br />

1998-<br />

2017<br />

2017-<br />

present<br />

Sonia Gandhi<br />

Rahul Gandhi<br />

ajin Vellanickal<br />

· longest Served President after<br />

independence<br />

· Recently appointed as INC President<br />

Q&AUbdn current aFFairs & gk<br />

February 2018

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