PRRC 2023 - Modern History #13

Indian National Congress (INC) Annual Sessions : Important sessions

Session President Significance

1885 Bombay WC Bonnerjee • 1st session of INC
• Attended by 72 delegates
1886 Calcutta Dada Bhai Naoroji • Merger of National congress & National conference
1887 Madras Syed Badruddin Taiyabji • 1st muslim president of INC
1888 Allahabad George Yule • 1st foreigner to preside INC session
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 extremists.
Majumdar • 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 Party.
Bihar 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
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 Lucknow Jawahar Lal Nehru • Push towards socialist ideas by Nehru
1937 Faizpur Jawahar Lal Nehru • 1st INC session in Village
• Demand for Constituent Assembly
1938 Haripura S C Bose • National Planning committee was setup under JL Nehru 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 Ramgarh Abul Kalam Azad • He was the longest serving President of INC during British Rule
1946 J B Kriplani • Last INC session before independence

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