Question

List of indian national congress sessions and its significance

Answer 1

Answer:

Year Location President Importance

1885 Bombay W C Bonnerjee 1st session attended by 72 delegates

1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji National Congress and National Conference

1887 Madras Syed Badruddin Tyabji Appeal made to Muslims to join hands with other national leaders

1888 Allahabad George Yule First English president

1889 Bombay Sir William Wedderburn –

1890 Calcutta Feroz Shah Mehta –

1891 Nagpur P. Ananda Charlu –

1892 Allahabad W C Bonnerjee –

1893 Lahore Dadabhai Naoroji –

1894 Madras Alfred Webb –

1895 Poona Surendranath Banerjee –

1896 Calcutta Rahimtullah M. Sayani National song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time

1897 Amravati C. Sankaran Nair –

1898 Madras Ananda Mohan Bose –

1899 Lucknow Romesh Chandra Dutt –

1900 Lahore N G Chandavarkar –

1901 Calcutta Dinshaw E. Wacha –

1902 Ahmedabad Surendranath Banerjee –

1903 Madras Lal Mohan Ghosh –

1904 Bombay Sir Henry Cotton –

1905 Benares Gopal Krishna Gokhale Expressed resentment against the partition of Bengal

1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji –

1907 Surat Rash Behari Ghosh Party splits into extremists and moderates

1908 Madras Rash Behari Ghosh Previous session continued

1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malaviya Indian Councils Act, 1909

1910 Allahabad Sir William Wedderburn –

1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Dar ‘Jana Gana Mana’ sung for the first time

1912 Bankipore (Patna) Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar –

1913 Karachi Syed Mohammed Bahadur –

1914 Madras Bhupendra Nath Basu –

1915 Bombay Satyendra Prasanna Sinha –

1916 Lucknow Ambica Charan Mazumdar Lucknow Pact – joint session with the Muslim League

1917 Calcutta Annie Besant First woman president of the INC

1918 Bombay And Delhi Syed Hasan Imam (bombay) And Madan Mohan Malaviya (delhi) Two sessions were held. First in Bombay in August/September Second in Delhi in December

1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru –

1920 Nagpur C Vijayaraghavachariar –

1921 Ahmedabad Hakim Ajmal Khan (acting President For C R Das) –

1922 Gaya C R Das –

1923 Kakinada Maulana Mohammad Ali, –

1924 Belgaum M K Gandhi –

1925 Kanpur Sarojini Naidu First Indian woman president

1926 Guwahati S Srinivasa Iyengar –

1927 Madras M A Ansari –

1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru All India Youth Congress formed

1929 Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru Resolution for ‘Poorna Swaraj.’ Civil Disobedience movement for complete independence to be launched, 26 January to be observed as ‘Independence Day’.

1930 No Session – –

1931 Karachi Vallabhbhai Patel Resolution on fundamental rights and national economic progress. Gandhi-Irwin pact endorsed. Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the second round table conference

1932 Delhi Amrit Ranchhorddas Seth –

1933 Calcutta Malaviya Was Elected But Mrs Nellie Sengupta Presided –

1934 Bombay Rajendra Prasad –

1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru –

1937 Faizpur Jawaharlal Nehru First session to be held in a village

1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra Bose National planning committee set up under Nehru

1939 Tripuri Subhas Chandra Bose Bose was elected but had to resign since Gandhi supported Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Instead Rajendra Prasad was appointed

1940 Ramgarh Abul Kalam Azad –

1941-45 – – No session because of arrest

1946 Meerut Acharya Kripalani Last session before independence

1948 Jaipur Pattabhi Sitaramayya First session after independence

1950 Nashik Purushottam Das Tandon –

1951 Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru –

1953 Hyderabad Jawaharlal Nehru –

1954 Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru –

1955 Avadi(madras) U. N. Dhebar –

1956 Amritsar U. N. Dhebar –

1958 Gauhati U. N. Dhebar –

1959 Nagpur Indira Gandhi –

1960 Bangalore Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy –

1961 Bhavnagar Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy –

1962 Bhubaneshwar Damodaran Sanjvayya –

1963 Patna Damodaran Sanjvayya –

1964 Bhubaneshwar K. Kamaraj –

1965 Durgapur K. Kamaraj

Answer 2

Answer:

the Indian national Congress was formed by AO Hume

first session was held in Bombay 31 December 1885