Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (nowadays called the Congress Party or Congress (in short it is called INC) is a political party in India with widespread roots.
But since last 10 to 12 years congress party lost its traditional vote bank in India and lost consecutive lok sabha elections.
Congress is in its worst era and continuously lossing its reputation. It was Founded in 1885 and it was first modren nationalist movement to emerge in the British ruled India in Asia.
In year 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement.
Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
This section of static gk is very important for those who are preparing for state and central government jobs exams like IAS, SSC, UPSC, TNSC, RPSC, MPPSC, Railways, Banks and so on.
Here we compiled the list of all sessions of Indian National Congress. You can download pdf file of this article too.
List of Indian National Congress Sessions and their Presidents (1885-2021)
Session | Place | Date | President |
1st | Bombay | Dec. 28-30, 1885 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
2nd | Calcutta | Dec. 27-30, 1886 | Shri Dadabhai Naoroji |
3rd | Madras | Dec. 27-30, 1887 | Badruddin Tyabji |
4th | Allahabad | Dec. 26-29, 1888 | George Yule |
5th | Bombay | Dec. 26-28, 1889 | Sir William Wedderburn |
6th | Calcutta | Dec. 26-30, 1890 | Pherozeshah Mehta |
7th | Nagpur | Dec. 28-30, 1891 | P. Ananda Charlu |
8th | Allahabad | Dec. 28-30, 1892 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
9th | Lahore | Dec. 27-30, 1893 | Shri Dadabhai Naoroji |
10th | Madras | Dec. 26-29, 1894 | Alfred Webb |
11th | Pune | Dec. 27-30, 1895 | Surendranath Banerjee |
12th | Calcutta | Dec. 28-31, 1896 | Rahimatullah M. Sayani |
13th | Amraoti | Dec. 27-29, 1897 | C. Sankaran Nair |
14th | Madras | Dec. 29-31, 1898 | Ananda Mohan Bose |
15th | Lucknow | Dec. 27-29, 1899 | Romesh Chunder Dutt |
16th | Lahore | Dec. 27-29, 1900 | N.G. Chandavarkar |
17th | Calcutta | Dec. 26-28, 1901 | Dinshaw EduljeeWacha |
18th | Ahmedabad | Dec. 28-30, 1902 | Surendranath Banerjee |
19th | Madras | Dec. 28-30, 1903 | Lal Mohan Ghosh |
20th | Bombay | Dec. 26-28, 1903 | Sir Henry Cotton |
21st | Banaras | Dec. 27-30, 1905 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
22nd | Calcutta | Dec. 26-29, 1906 | Shri Dadabhai Naoroji |
23rd (Suspended) | Surat | Dec. 26-27, 1907 | Rash Behari Ghosh |
23rd | Madras | Dec. 28-30, 1908 | Rash Behari Ghosh |
24th | Lahore | Dec. 27-29, 1909 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
25th | Allahabad | Dec. 26-29, 1910 | Sir William Wedderburn |
26th | Calcutta | Dec. 26-28, 1911 | Bishan Narayan Dar |
27th | Bankipore | Dec. 26-28, 1912 | Shri Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar |
28th | Karachi | Dec. 26-28, 1913 | Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur |
29th | Madras | Apr. 14-15, 1914 | Bhupendra Nath Bose |
30th | Bombay | Dec. 27-29, 1915 | Satyendra Prasanna Sinha |
31st | Lucknow | Dec. 26-30, 1916 | Ambica Charan Mazumdar |
32nd | Calcutta | Dec. 26-29, 1917 | Annie Besant |
33rd | Delhi | Dec. 26-30, 1918 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
(Special Session) | Bombay | Aug. 29-01, 1918 | Romesh Chunder Dutt |
34th | Amritsar | Dec. 26-30, 1919 | Motilal Nehru |
35th | Nagpur | Dec. 26-30, 1920 | C. Vijayaraghava chariar |
36th | Ahmedabad | Dec. 27-28, 1921 | Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das) |
37th | Gaya | Dec. 26-31, 1922 | Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das |
Special Session | Delhi | Sep. 04-08, 1923 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
39th | Belgaum | Dec. 26-27, 1924 | M.K. Gandhi |
40th | Cawnpore | Apr. 15-17, 1925 | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
41st | Gawahati | Dec. 26-28, 1926 | S. Srinivasa Iyengar |
42nd | Madras | Dec. 26-28, 1927 | M.A. Ansari |
43rd | Calcutta | Dec. 29-01, 1929 | Motilal Nehru |
44th | Lahore | Apr. 16-18, 1929 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
45th | Karachi | Mar. 21-31, 1931 | Vallabbhai J. Patel |
47th | Calcutta | Sep. 12-14, 1933 | Mrs. Nellie |
48th | Bombay | Oct. 24-28, 1934 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
49th | Lucknow | Jun. 18-20, 1936 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
50th | Faizpur | Jul. 12-14, 1937 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
51st | Haripura | Feb. 19-21, 1938 | Subhash Chandra Bose |
52nd | Tripura | Mar. 10-12, 1939 | Subhash Chandra Bose |
53rd | Ramgarh | Mar. 19-20, 1940 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
54th | Meerut | Nov. 23-24, 1946 | J.B. Kripalani |
55th | Jaipur | Dec. 18-18, 1948 | B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya |
56th | Nasik | Sep. 21-22, 1950 | Purushottam Das Tandon |
57th | New Delhi | Mar. 10-12, 1951 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
58th | Hyderabad | May. 08-10, 1953 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
59th | Kalyani | Jul. 10-12, 1954 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
60th | Avadi, Madras | Sep. 07-09, 1955 | Romesh Chunder Dutt |
61st | Amritsar | Aug. 11-13, 1956 | Shri U. N. Dhebar |
62nd | Indore | May. 14-15, 1957 | Shri U. N. Dhebar |
63rd | Gauhati | Jul. 15-17,1958 | Shri U. N. Dhebar |
64th | Nagpur | Jun. 10-12, 1959 | Shri U. N. Dhebar |
65th | Bangalore | Jan. 16-15, 1960 | N. Sanjiva Reddy |
66th | Bhavnagar | Jan. 06-07, 1961 | N. Sanjiva Reddy |
67th | Patna | Aug. 13-15, 1962 | N. Sanjiva Reddy |
68th | Bhubaneshwar | Sep. 17-19, 1964 | Shri K. Kamaraj |
69th | Durgapur | Apr. 14-16, 1965 | Shri K. Kamaraj |
70th | Jaipur | Jul. 16-18, 1966 | Shri K. Kamaraj |
71st | Hyderabad | Jan. 10-11, 1968 | S. Nijalingappa |
72nd | Faridabad | Apr. 26-28, 1969 | S. Nijalingappa |
73rd | Bombay | Dec. 28-29, 1969 | Jagjivan Ram |
74th | Calcutta | Dec. 28-29, 1972 | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
75th | Chandigarh | Dec. 31-01, 1976 | D.K. Barooah |
76th | New Delhi | Jan. 01-02, 1978 | Indira Gandhi |
77th | Calcutta | Dec. 29-30, 1983 | Indira Gandhi |
78th (Centenary) Session | Bombay | Dec. 28-28, 1985 | Rajiv Gandhi |
Special Session | New Delhi | Dec. 08-08, 1998 | Sonia Gandhi |
79th | Tirupati (A.P.) | Apr. 14-16, 1992 | P.V.Narasimha Rao |
Special Session | Surajkund (Haryana) | Mar. 27-28, 1993 | P.V. Narasimha Rao |
Special Session | New Delhi | Jun. 10-11, 1994 | P.V. Narasimha Rao |
Special Session | New Delhi | May. 25-25, 1995 | Sonia Gandhi |
80th | Calcutta | Aug. 08-10, 1997 | Sitaram Kesri |
Special session | New Delhi | Dec. 08-08, 1998 | Sonia Gandhi |
Chintan Shivir | Panchmarhi (M.P.) | Sep. 04-09, 1998 | Sonia Gandhi |
Special Session | New Delhi | Apr. 06-06, 1998 | Sonia Gandhi |
81st | Bangalore | Feb. 14-16, 2001 | Sonia Gandhi |
Chintan Shivir | Shimla (H.P.) | Jul. 09-11, 2003 | Sonia Gandhi |
Special Session | New Delhi | Aug. 21-21, 2004 | Sonia Gandhi |
82nd Session | Hyderabad | Jan. 01-01, 2006 | Sonia Gandhi |
83rd (Plenary Session) | New Delhi | Jan. 01-01, 2010 | Sonia Gandhi |
Chintan Shivir | Jaipur | Jan. 18-19, 2013 | Sonia Gandhi |
84th | New Delhi | Mar. 17-18, 2018 | Rahul Gandhi |