When and where were the sessions of the Indian National Congress held:
Congress sessions were held from time to time by the largest political party of Indians, the Indian National Congress. The Indian National Congress was established on December 28, 1885. Its first session was held in Bombay (present Mumbai) under the chairmanship of Barrister Vyomeshchandra Banerjee of 'Calcutta High Court'.
It is said that the Viceroy Lord Dufferin (1884-1888) indirectly supported the establishment of the Congress. It is true that Alan Octavian Hume, a retired British officer, was the father of the Congress and after his death in 1912, the Congress declared him as its father and founder. According to Gopalkrishna Gokhale, in 1885 no one else could have founded the Congress except Hume. But the facts seem to be that as C.Y. Chintamani is of the opinion that the idea of National Conference was raised in the minds of many people for political purposes and it became a reality in 1885.
Sessions: Sessions of the Indian National Congress starting from 1885 till 1947 are as follows, which reveal its national and all-India form.| Session and year | Place | President (Special) |
| First 1885 | Bombay | Vyomeshchandra Banerjee (72 delegates participated) |
| Second 1886 | Calcutta | Dadabhai Naroji |
| Third 1887 | Madras | Badruddin Tayyabji (First Muslim President) |
| Fourth 1888 | Allahabad | George Yule (First English President) |
| Fifth 1889 | Bombay | Sir william wedderburn |
| Sixth 1890 | Calcutta | Sir Firoz Shah Mehta |
| Seventh 1891 | Nagpur | P. Anand Charlu |
| Eighth 1892 | Allahabad | Vyomeshchandra Banerjee |
| Nine 1893 | Lahore | Dadabhai Naroji |
| Tenth 1894 | Madras | Alfred Webb |
| Eleventh 1895 | Poona | Surendranath Banerjee |
| Twelveth 1896 | Calcutta | Rahimtullah Sayani (Vande Mataram sung for the first time) |
| Thirteenth 1897 | Amravati | C. Sankaran Nair |
| Fourteenth 1898 | Madras | Anandmohan Das |
| Fifteenth 1899 | lucknow | Rameshchandra Dutt |
| Sixteenth 1900 | Lahore | N. G. chandravarkar |
| Seventeenth 1901 | Calcutta | Dinsha Edulji Vacha |
| Eighteenth 1902 | Ahmedabad | Surendranath Banerjee |
| Nineteenth 1903 | Madras | Lalmohan Ghosh |
| Twentieth 1904 | Bombay | Sir henry cotton |
| Twenty First 1905 | Banaras | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| Twenty Scond 1906 | Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji (used the word Swaraj for the first time) |
| Twenty Third 1907 | Surat | Dr. Rasbihari Ghosh (First Division of Congress) |
| Twenty Fourth 1908 | Madras | Dr. Rasbihari Ghosh (Constitution making of Congress) |
| Twenty Fifth 1909 | Lahore | Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya |
| Twenty Sixth 1910 | Allahabad | William Wedderburn |
| Twenty Seventh 1911 | Calcutta | Pt Bishannarayan Dhar (Jana Gana Man Gaya Gaya for the first time) |
| Twenty Eight 1912 | Bankipur | R. N. madholkar |
| Twenty Nine 1913 | Karachi | Nawab Syed Mohd. Brave |
| Thirty 1914 | Madras | Bhupendranath Basu |
| Thirty-One 1915 | Bombay | Sir Satyendra Prasanna Sinha (Lord Wellington attended) |
| Thirty Second 1916 | Lucknow | Ambikacharan Majumdar (agreement with Muslim League) |
| Thirty-Third 1917 | Calcutta | Mrs. Anne Besant (First Woman Speaker) |
| Special Session 1918 | Bombay | Hasan Imam (second split of Congress) |
| Thirty Fourth 1918 | Delhi | Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya |
| Thirty Fifth 1919 | Amritsar | Pt. Motilal Nehru |
| Chattiswan 1920 | Nagpur | C. V. Radhavachariar (Change in Congress Constitution) |
| Special Session 1920 | Calcutta | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Thirty-Seventh 1921 | Ahmedabad | Hakim ajmal khan |
| Thirty Eight 1922 | Gaya | Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das |
| Thirty Nine 1923 | Kakinada | Maulana Mohammad Ali |
| Special Session 1923 | Delhi | Abul Kalam Azad (Youngest President) |
| Fourty 1924 | Belgaum | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Fourty One 1925 | Kanpur | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (First Indian woman Speaker) |
| Forty-Second 1926 | Guwahati | S. Srinivasa Aygar (Khadi clothing compulsory for members) |
| Forty-Third 1927 | Madras | Dr. M.A. Ansari (demand for complete independence) |
| Forty-Fourth 1928 | Calcutta | Pt. Motilal Nehru |
| Fourty-Five 1929 | Lahore | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (Demand for Complete Swaraj) |
| Forty-Sixth 1931 | Karachi | Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel (Demand for Fundamental Rights) |
| Forty-Seventh 1932 | Delhi | Amrit Ranchod Das Seth |
| Forty-Eighth 1933 | Calcutta | Mrs. Nellie Sengupta |
| Forty-Nine 1934 | Bombay | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Fifty 1936 | Lucknow | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Fifty-One 1937 | Faujpur | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (First session organized in the village) |
| Fifty-Two 1938 | Haripur | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Fifty-Three 1939 | Tripura | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Fifty-Four 1940 | Ramgarh | Abul kalam azad |
| Fifty-Fifth 1946 | Meerut | Acharya J. B. Kriplani (Speaker at the time of independence) |
| Fifty-Six 1948 | Jaipur | B. Pattabhi Sitaramaiah |
| Fifty-seventh 1950 | Nashik | Purushottam Das Tandon |
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In 1938, the annual session of Congress was decided to be held in Haripura. Before this session, Gandhiji chose Subhash for the post of Congress President. This was the 51st session of the Congress. That's why Congress President Subhash Chandra Bose was welcomed in a chariot drawn by 51 oxen.
Ambikacharan Majumdar (1850–1922) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He presided over the 1916 Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress.
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