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MOST IMPORTANT CONGRESS SESSIONS

Year Place President Remarks
1885 Bombay W.C. Bannerjee 72 social reformers, journalists and lawyers
congregated for the first session of Indian
National Congress at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit
College, Bombay.
1886 Calcutta Shri Dadabhai 434 Delegates
Naoroji
1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji The first muslim President
, An appeal made to Muslims to join hands
with other national leaders
1888 Allahabad George Yule The first English President.
1892 Allahabad W. C. Bannerjee The Congress criticized the Indian Councils
Act of 1892. Which had just been put into
operation by the colonial govt.
1895 Pune Surendranath
Banerjee
1896 Calcutta Rahimatullah M. National Song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the
Sayani first time by Rabindranath Tagore
The Drain theory got a stamp of approval
1898 Madras Anand Mohan Bose
1899 Lucknow Romesh Chunder Demand for permanent fixation of Land
Dutt revenue
1901 Calcutta Dinshaw E. Wacha First time Gandhiji appeared on the Congress
platform
1903 Madras Lal Mohan Ghosh
(19th
session)
1905 Banaras Gopal Krishna Formal proclamation of Swadeshi movement
Gokhale against government
1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji The word Swaraj mentioned first time
1907 Surat Rash Bihari Ghosh Split in Congress- Moderates & Extremist
Adjournment of Session

1910 Allahabad Sir William M.A Jinnah decried the separate electorate
Wedderburn system introduced by act of 1909
1911 Calcutta B.N. Dhar First time recital of Jan-Gan-Man in Congress
session
1915 Bombay Sir S.P. Sinha Constitution of the Congress was altered to
admit the delegates from the extremist section
1916 Lucknow A.C. Majumdar  Unity between two factions-Moderates
and Extremists of Congress

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 Lucknow Pact signed between Congress
and Muslim League to build political
consensus
1917 Calcutta Annie Besant The First Woman President of Congress
1918 Bombay Syed Hasan Imam The session was convened to deliberate the
(Special contentious Montagu– Chelmsford Reforms
Session) Scheme
1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru Congress extended support to Khilafat
Movement
1920 Calcutta Lala Lajpat Rai Mahatma Gandhi moved the Non-Cooperation
(Special resolution
Session)
1920 Nagpur C.  Reconstitution of Working committees
Vijayaraghavachariar of Congress on Linguistic basis
 MA Jinnah left the Indian National
Congress
1922 Gaya C.R. Das CR Das and other leaders broke away from
INC
Formation of Swaraj Party
1924 Belgaum M.K. Gandhi Only Session presided over by Mahatma
Gandhi
1925 Cawnpore Sarojini Naidu First Indian Woman President
1927 Madras M.A. Ansari Passed a resolution against boycott of Simon
Commission
Adoption of resolution on Purna Swaraj
1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru Formation of All India Youth Congress
1929 Lahore Jawahar Lal Nehru Passed the resolution on ‘Poorna Swaraj.’
Civil Disobedience movement for complete
independence to be launched
26 January to be observed as ‘Independence
Day’
1931 Karachi Vallabhbhai Patel
1933 Calcutta Endorsement of Gandhi-Irwin pact
Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the
Second Round Table Conference to be held in
London
1934 Bombay Rajendra Prasad
1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru Push towards socialist ideas by Jawahar Lal
Nehru
1937 Faizpur Jawaharlal Nehru First Session to be held in a village
1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra National Planning Committee set up under
Bose Jawahar Lal Nehru.
1939 Tripuri Subhas Chandra Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected but had to
Bose resign
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Rajendra Prasad was appointed in his place
Subhash Chandra Bose formed Forward Bloc
1940 Ramgarh Abul Kalam Azad Civil Disobedience movement to be launched
at appropriate time and circumstances.
1941- No session Because of arrest
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1946 Meerut J.B. Kriplani This was the last session before independence

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