History of Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is the oldest political party in India. The current President of the Indian National Congress is Mallikarjun Kharge. He has been the Minister of Labor and Employment in the Cabinet of the Fifteenth Lok Sabha of the Government of India. The youth organization of the Congress party is 'Indian Youth Congress'. The 'Indian National Congress' was established on December 28, 1885 at 12 noon in the building of 'Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College' in Bombay. Its founder 'A.O. Hume' and Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee was made the first president.
There were a total of 72 members in the 'Indian National Congress', among whom were important - Dadabhai Naoroji, Ferozshah Mehta, Dinsha Edalji Vacha, Kashinatha Tailang, V. Raghavacharya, N.G. Chandravarkar, S. Subramaniam etc. In this conference, on the suggestion of Dadabhai Naoroji, the name of 'Indian National Association' was changed to 'Indian National Congress'.
Objectives and Programs of Congress:
The objectives and programs of the Indian National Congress were as follows-
- Running a democratic nationalist movement.
- To acquaint Indians with political goals and impart political education.
- Establishment of headquarters for the movement.
- To encourage the establishment of friendly relations between political leaders and workers of different parts of the country.
- Promotion and support of anti-colonial ideology.
- To unite the countrymen for a common economic one political program.
- To inculcate a nationwide experience in the people by lifting them in the spirit of caste, religion and provincialism.
- Promotion and spread of Indian nationalist sentiment.
List of Presidents of Indian National Congress:
All Indian National Congress Presidents since Independence of India (1948):
| Presidential year | Presidents Name | Place of Conference |
| 2022–Incumbent | Mallikarjun Kharge | New Delhi |
| 2019–2022 | Sonia Gandhi | Jaipur |
| 2017–2019 | Rahul Gandhi | New Delhi |
| 2010–2017 | Sonia Gandhi | New Delhi |
| 2006–2010 | Sonia Gandhi | Hyderabad |
| 2004–2006 | Sonia Gandhi | New Delhi |
| 2001–2004 | Sonia Gandhi | Bangalore |
| 1998–2001 | Sonia Gandhi | New Delhi |
| 1996–1998 | Sitaram Kesri | Calcutta |
| 1994 | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Delhi |
| 1993 | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Surajkund |
| 1992 | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Tirupati |
| 1985–1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Bombay |
| 1983 | Indira Gandhi | Calcutta |
| 1978–83 | Indira Gandhi | New Delhi |
| 1975–77 | Devakanta Barua | Chandigarh |
| 1977–78 | Devakanta Barua | Chandigarh |
| 1972–74 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | Calcutta |
| 1970–1971 | Jagjivan Ram | Bombay |
| 1969 | S. Nijalingappa | Faridabad |
| 1968 | S. Nijalingappa | Hyderabad |
| 1966–1967 | K. Kamaraj | Jaipur |
| 1965 | K. Kamaraj | Durgapur |
| 1964 | K. Kamaraj | Bhubaneswar |
| 1962–1963 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Patna |
| 1961 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Bhavnagar |
| 1960 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Bangalore |
| 1959 | Indira Gandhi | Delhi (special session) |
| 1959 | U. N. Dhebar | Nagpur |
| 1958 | U. N. Dhebar | Gauhati |
| 1957 | U. N. Dhebar | Indore |
| 1956 | U. N. Dhebar | Amritsar |
| 1955 | U. N. Dhebar | Avadi |
| 1954 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Kalyani |
| 1953 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Hyderabad |
| 1951–1952 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Delhi |
| 1950 | Purushottam Das Tandon | Nashik |
| 1948–1949 | Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya | Jaipur |
Presidents of the Indian National Congress from 1901 to 1947 before Indian independence:
| Presidential year | Presidents Name | Place of Conference |
| 1946–47 | J. B. Kripalani | Meerut |
| 1940–46 | Abul Kalam Azad | Ramgarh |
| 1939 (March) | Rajendra Prasad | Tewar, Madhya Pradesh (then Tripuri) |
| 1939 | Subhas Chandra Bose | Tewar, Madhya Pradesh (then Tripuri) |
| 1938 | Subhas Chandra Bose | Haripura |
| 1937 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Faizpur |
| 1936 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Lucknow |
| 1935 | Rajendra Prasad | Lucknow |
| 1934 | Rajendra Prasad | Bombay |
| 1933 | Nellie Sengupta | Calcutta |
| 1932 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Delhi |
| 1931 | Vallabhbhai Patel | Karachi |
| 1930 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Karachi |
| 1929 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Lahore |
| 1928 | Motilal Nehru | Calcutta |
| 1927 | Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari | Madras |
| 1926 | S. Srinivasa Iyengar | Guwahati |
| 1925 | Sarojini Naidu | Kanpur |
| 1924 | Mahatma Gandhi | Belgaum |
| 1923 | Abul Kalam Azad | Delhi (Special Session) |
| 1923 | Mohammad Ali Jouhar | Kakinada |
| 1922 | Chittaranjan Das | Gaya |
| 1921 | Hakim Ajmal Khan | Ahmedabad |
| 1920 | C. Vijayaraghavachariar | Nagpur |
| 1920 | Lala Lajpat Rai | Calcutta (Special Session) |
| 1919 | Motilal Nehru | Amritsar |
| 1918 | Syed Hasan Imam | Bombay (special session) |
| 1918 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Delhi |
| 1917 | Annie Besant | Calcutta |
| 1916 | Ambica Charan Mazumdar | Lucknow |
| 1915 | Satyendra Prasanno Sinha | Bombay |
| 1914 | Bhupendra Nath Bose | Madras |
| 1913 | Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur | Karachi |
| 1912 | Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar | Bankipore |
| 1911 | Bishan Narayan Dar | Calcutta |
| 1910 | William Wedderburn | Allahabad |
| 1909 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Lahore |
| 1908 | Rashbihari Ghosh | Madras |
| 1907 | Rashbihari Ghosh | Surat |
| 1906 | Dadabhai Naoroji | Calcutta |
| 1905 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Benares |
| 1904 | Henry John Stedman Cotton | Bombay |
| 1903 | Lalmohan Ghosh | Madras |
| 1902 | Surendranath Banerjee | Ahmedabad |
| 1901 | Dinshaw Edulji Wacha | Calcutta |
President of the Indian National Congress from 1900 to 1885:
| Presidential year | Presidents Name | Place of Conference |
| 1900 | N. G. Chandavarkar | Lahore |
| 1899 | Romesh Chunder Dutt | Lucknow |
| 1898 | Anandamohan Bose | Madras |
| 1897 | C. Sankaran Nair | Amaravati |
| 1896 | Rahimtulla M. Sayani | Calcutta |
| 1895 | Surendranath Banerjee | Poona |
| 1894 | Alfred Webb | Madras |
| 1893 | Dadabhai Naoroji | Lahore |
| 1892 | Womesh Chandra Banerjee | Allahabad |
| 1891 | Panapakkam Anandacharlu | Nagpur |
| 1890 | Pherozeshah Mehta | Calcutta |
| 1889 | William Wedderburn | Bombay |
| 1888 | George Yule | Allahabad |
| 1887 | Badruddin Tyabji | Madras |
| 1886 | Dadabhai Naoroji | Calcutta |
| 1885 | Womesh Chandra Banerjee | Bombay |
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Ambikacharan Majumdar (1850–1922) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He presided over the 1916 Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress.
The Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 at the Gokul Das Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay (Mumbai) with the presence of 72 delegates. Its founder general secretary A.O. Hume, who appointed Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee of Calcutta as its president.
In the year 1907, the session of the Indian National Congress was held in Surat, in which Congress was divided into two parties named Garam Dal and Naram Dal. This is called Surat Partition.
On 31 December 1929, the annual session of the Indian National Congress was held in Lahore, the capital of the then Punjab province. In this historic convention, the manifesto of 'Purna Swaraj' of the Congress was prepared and declared 'Purna Swaraj' as the main goal of the Congress.
The Indian National Congress, more commonly known as the Congress, is one of the major political parties in India. The Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 during the British Raj. WC Banerjee is the first President of the Indian National Congress.