Important Indian National Congress Sessions : Daily Current Affairs

About Indian National Congress:

  • It was founded in 1885 by A O Hume.
  • It was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge against the British Empire in Asia.

  • He invited many Indian leaders laid the foundation of INC, earlier known as ‘Indian National Union’.
  • But, after the suggestion of Dadabhai Naoroji, its name was changed to ‘Indian National Congress.’
  • The word ‘Congress’ was sourced from the American Constitution.
  • A dire need was felt for an all-India organisation of educated Indians since 1880, but the Ilbert Bill controversy deepened this desire.
SESSION PLACE AND YEAR PRESIDENT IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE SESSION
First session Bombay, 1885 Womesh Chandra Bannerjee Formation of the Indian National Congress
Second session Calcutta, 1886 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji  
Third session Madras, 1887 Badruddin Tyabji First Muslim President
Fourth session Allahabad, 1888 George Yule First English President
Twelfth session Calcutta, 1896 Rahimatullah M. Sayani National Song ‘Vande Mataram’ was sung for the first time by Rabindranath Tagore.
Fifteenth session Lucknow, 1899 Romesh Chunder Dutt There was a demand for permanent fixation of Land revenue in this session
Seventeenth session Calcutta, 1901 Dinshaw Wacha First time, Gandhiji appeared on INC platform
21st session Banaras, 1905 Gopal Krishna Gokhale Formal proclamation of Swadeshi movement against government
22nd session Calcutta, 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji This session had adopted four resolutions i.e. Swaraj (Self Government), Boycott Movement, Swadeshi & National Education
23rd session Surat, 1907 Rash Bihari Ghosh
  • Split in Congress and formed Moderates & Extremist
  • Suspension of Session
25th session Allahabad, 1910 Sir William Wedderburn M.A Jinnah publicly rejected the separate electorate system introduced by act of 1909
26th session Calcutta, 1911 B. N. Dhar First time Jan-Gan-Man was recited in Congress session
30th session Bombay, 1915 Satyendra Sinha Constitution of the Congress was altered to admit the delegates from the extremist section
31st session Lucknow, 1916 A.C.Majumdar
  • This session brought about unity between two parts-Moderates and Extremists.
  • Lucknow Pact signed between Congress and Muslim League.
32nd session Calcutta, 1917 Annie Besant First woman president
1918 Special Session Bombay, 1918 Syed Hasan Imam The session was called upon to discuss on Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms Scheme
34th session Amritsar, 1919 Motilal Nehru Congress extended support to Khilafat Movement
35th session Nagpur, 1920 C. Vijayaraghavachariar
  • Reconstitution of Working committees of Congress on Linguistic basis
  • MA Jinnah left the Indian National Congress
1920 Special Session Calcutta, 1920 Lala Lajpat Rai Mahatma Gandhi moved the Non cooperation resolution
37th session Gaya, 1922 C.R.Das
  • CR Das and other leaders left INC
  • Formation of Swaraj Party
39th session Belgaum, 1924 Mahatma Gandhi Only session presided by Bapu
40th session Cawnpore (Kanpur), 1925 Sarojini Naidu First Indian Women President
42nd session Madras, 1927 M. A. Ansari
  • A resolution was passed against the use of Indian troops in China, Iran and Mesopotamia
  • A resolution was passed to boycott Simon Commission
  • Adoption of resolution on Purna Swaraj
43rd session Lahore, 1929 Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Passed the resolution on ‘Poorna Swaraj.’
  • Civil Disobedience movement to be launched soon
  • It was decided that 26 January was to be observed as ‘Independence Day’.
45th session Karachi, 1931 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  • Endorsement of Gandhi-Irwin pact
  • Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the Second Round Table Conference (to be held in London)
48th session Bombay, 1934 Dr. Rajendra Prasad The Constitution of Congress got amended
50th session Faizpur, 1937 Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru First Session to be held in a village
51st session Haripura, 1938 Subash Chandra Bose National Planning Committee set up under Jawahar Lal Nehru.
52nd session Tripura, 1939 Subash Chandra Bose, but resigned   Then, Rajendra Prasad Subhash Chandra Bose formed Forward Bloc
53rd session Ramgarh, 1940 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Civil Disobedience movement to be launched soon.
54th session Meerut, 1946 J. B. Kriplani
  • Last session before independence
  • J.B Kriplani was the president of INC at independence

Sources

  • INC.com
  • NCERTs