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Indian National Congress (INC) Annual Sessions : Important sessions

Session President Significance

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1885 Bombay WC Bonnerjee  1 session of INC
 Attended by 72 delegates
1886 Calcutta Dada Bhai Naoroji  Merger of National congress & National conference
1887 Madras Syed Badruddin  1st muslim president of INC
Taiyabji
1888 George Yule  1st foreigner to preside INC session
Allahabad
1896 Calcutta Rahimatullah M. Sayani  National song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time
1905 Benaras GK Gokhale  Expressed resentment against Bengal partition boycott of
foreign goods
 Promotion of swadeshi goods and Indian industries- Public
meetings and processions
1906 Calcutta Dada Bhai Narauji  The word “Swaraj” mentioned for the 1st time
1907 Surat Rash Bihari Bosh  Split in congress into moderate & Extremists
1908 Madra Rash Bihari Bosh  Constiution of INC drawn
1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malviya  Expressed disapproval over formation of separate electorates
(For muslims) based on religion (Indian Councils Act, 1909)
1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Das  Jana Gana Mana sung for the first time
1916 Lucknow Ambika Charan  Reunification of the two factions in INC i.e., moderates and
Majumdar extremists.
 Lucknow Pact between Muslim league and INC
 INC accepted Muslim league demand of separate electorat
1917 Calcutta Anie Basent  1st women president of INC
1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru  New constitution of INC framed
 Condemned the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
 Approved the Khilafat movement
1920 (Special Lala Lajpat Rai  Non-Coperation Movement resolution was moved & Adopted
Session)
Calcutta
1920 Nagpur Viraraghvachari  Reconstitution of congress committees on linguistic grounds.
 Jinnah left the INC
1922 Gaya CR Das  CR Das & other leaders broke away from INC and formed Swaraj
Bihar Party. C R Das presided session when he was in Jail.
1924 Balgaum M K Gandhi  Only session where Gandhi ji presided
Karnataka
1925 Kanpur Sarojni Naidu  1st Indian women president of INC
1927 Madras MA Ansari  Resolution against using Indian troops in Mesopotamia, Iran, and
China
 Resolution passed to boycott Simon commission
 Adopted resolution for Purna Swaraj

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1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru  1st All India Youth Congress Formed
1929 Lahore Jawahar Lal Nehru  Passed Purna Swaraj Resolution
 26th Jan observed as Independence Day
 Civil disobedience movement to be launched
1931 Karachi Sardar Patel  Endorsed Gandhi Irwin pact
 Resolution of Fundamental rights and National Economic
Programme was passed
 Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the 2nd RTC
1934 Bombay Rajendra Prasad  INC constitution amended
1936 Jawahar Lal Nehru  Push towards socialist ideas by Nehru
Lucknow
1937 Faizpur Jawahar Lal Nehru  1st INC session in Village
 Demand for Constituent Assembly
1938 S C Bose  National Planning committee was setup under JL Nehru
Haripura leadership
1939 Tripuri Rajendra Prasad  Bose was re-elected as president but had to resign when Gandhi
supporters (in favour of P. Sitarammaiah) protested
 Rajendra Prasad was made president of the session
1940 Abul Kalam Azad  He was the longest serving President of INC during British Rule
Ramgarh
1946 J B Kriplani  Last INC session before independence

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