INC - SESSIONS

The Annual Session of the INC
Sr. No. ---------Year -----------Place------------ President----------------- Others

1. ----28-12-1885-------- Bombay----------- W.C.Bannerjee

2. 28-12-1886---------- Calcutta------------- Dadabhai Naroji


3. 28-12-1887 ------------Madras ---------Badruddin Tayyabji-------- First Muslim Pr. of INC


4. 26-12-1888 ------------Allahabad------- George Yule ---------First English President of INC

5. 27-12-1905------------ Varanasi ----------Gopal Krishan Gokhale ---------Call for Swedeshi


6. 26-12-1906 ------------Calcutta------------ Dadabhai Naroji --------Goal of INC ‘Self Govt.’


7. 26-12-1907 ------------Surat---------------- Rashbehari Ghosh ------------Congress Split


8. 1916 -----------------Lucknow --------------Ambika Charan Muzumdar


9. 1917 -------------Calcutta ---------------Annie Besant -------------First woman President


10. 1920 -----------Calcutta --------------Lala Lajpat Rai (suspended)


11. 1920 -------------Nagpur ------------C. Vijayraghavachariar (annual)


12. 1921 ----------------Ahmedabad ----------C.R.Das (in Prison) Hakim Ajmal Khan (acting)


13. 1924 ------------Belgaum --------------Mahatma Gandhi


14. 1925 ----------- Kanpur --------Sarojini Naidu ---------1st Indian Woman President of INC

15. 1928 ----------Calcutta -------Motilal Nehru


16. 1929-30 ---------Lahore -------Jawaharlal Nehru ----Resolution on Complete Independence on 31 Dec- 1929


17. 1931 ----------Karachi ----------Vallabhbhai Patel ---------Resolution on Fundamental Rights


18. 1937 -------Faizpur --------J.L.Nehru ------------INC first session in village


19. 1938 ----------Haripura ---------S.C.Bose --------


20. 1939 ---------- Tripuri ---------S.C.Bose (later Rajendra Prasad) ---


21. 1940----------- Ramgarh------------ Mulana Abul Kalam Azad


22. 1946 ---------Meerut --------------J.B. Kriplani