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Congress Sessions and Presidents

Important Indian National Congress sessions with venue, year, president and what happened, for CAPF Paper I revision

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The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885. This is a denser companion to sessions of the indian national congress, built around the president of each landmark session. Cover the right columns and recall the year and the decision. See rise of nationalism moderates and extremists.

Foundation and early sessions

Year	Venue	President	Remembered for
1885	Bombay	W C Bonnerjee	First session; 72 delegates; founded with A O Hume
1886	Calcutta	Dadabhai Naoroji	(Naoroji presided three times: 1886, 1893, 1906)
1887	Madras	Badruddin Tyabji	First Muslim president
1888	Allahabad	George Yule	First English (European) president

Year	Venue	President	Remembered for
1905	Banaras	Gokhale	Condemned the partition of Bengal
1906	Calcutta	Dadabhai Naoroji	Adopted the goal of Swaraj (self-government)
1907	Surat	Rash Behari Ghosh	The Surat Split between Moderates and Extremists
1916	Lucknow	A C Majumdar	Reunion of the two wings; Lucknow Pact with the Muslim League
1917	Calcutta	Annie Besant	First woman president of the Congress

Year	Venue	President	Remembered for
1920 (special)	Calcutta	Lala Lajpat Rai	Approved the Non-Cooperation programme
1920	Nagpur	C Vijayaraghavachariar	Adopted Non-Cooperation; reorganised the Congress on linguistic lines
1924	Belgaum	M K Gandhi	The only session Gandhi presided over
1925	Kanpur	Sarojini Naidu	First Indian woman president
1927	Madras	M A Ansari	Resolution against the Simon Commission
1928	Calcutta	Motilal Nehru	Nehru Report discussed
1929	Lahore	Jawaharlal Nehru	Purna Swaraj resolution; Tricolour hoisted; 26 January 1930 as Independence Day

Year	Venue	President	Remembered for
1931	Karachi	Vallabhbhai Patel	Resolutions on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Programme
1936	Lucknow and Faizpur	Jawaharlal Nehru	Both 1936 sessions under Nehru; Faizpur (December 1936) was the first session in a village
1938	Haripura	Subhas Chandra Bose	National Planning Committee proposed
1939	Tripuri	Subhas Chandra Bose	Bose re-elected over Pattabhi Sitaramayya but later resigned; formed the Forward Bloc
1940	Ramgarh	Abul Kalam Azad	Azad continued as president through the Quit India years