(5) Who was the president of the first meeting of the
Indian National Congress?
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Umesh Chandra Banerjee was the first president of Congress; the first session was attended by 72 delegates, representing each province of India.
Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Bharatiya Janata Party.[25] Congress is a "big tent" party whose social democratic platform is generally considered in the centre to centre-left of Indian politics.[7][13] Congress social policy is based upon the Gandhian principle of Sarvodaya–the lifting up of all sections of society–which involves the improvement of the lives of economically underprivileged and socially marginalised people.[26][27] On social and economic issues, it advocates social justice, equality, welfare state, along with secular society.[10][9]
After India's independence in 1947, Congress formed the union government of India and many state governments of India.[28] Congress became India's dominant political party; as of 2019, in the 17 general elections since independence, it has won an outright majority on seven occasions and has led the ruling coalition a further three times, heading the central government for more than 54 years. There have been six Congress Prime Ministers, the first being Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964), and the most recent Manmohan Singh (2004–2014). Although it did not fare well in the last two general elections in India in 2014 and 2019, it remains one of two major, nationwide, political parties in India, along with the right-wing, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[e][29] In the 2014 general election, Congress had its poorest post-independence general election performance, winning only 44 seats of the 543-member Lok Sabha—the lower house of the Parliament of India.