Presidents of Indian National Congress

Year	Location of Session	President
1885	Bombay	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
1886	Calcutta	Dadabhai Naoroji
1887	Madras	Badruddin Tyabji
1888	Allahabad	George Yule
1889	Bombay	William Wedderburn
1890	Calcutta	Pherozeshah Mehta
1891	Nagpur	P. Ananda Charlu
1892	Allahabad	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
1893	Lahore	Dadabhai Naoroji
1894	Madras	Alfred Webb
1895	Poona	Surendranath Banerjea
1896	Calcutta	Rahimtulla M. Sayani
1897	Amraoti	C. Sankaran Nair
1898	Madras	Ananda Mohan Bose
1899	Lucknow	Romesh Chunder Dutt
1900	Lahore	Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar
1901	Calcutta	Dinshaw Edulji Wacha
1902	Ahmedabad	Surendranath Banerjea
1903	Madras	Lalmohan Ghosh
1904	Bombay	Henry Cotton
1905	Benares	Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1906	Calcutta	Dadabhai Naoroji
1907	Surat	Rashbihari Ghosh
1908	Madras	Rashbihari Ghosh
1909	Lahore	Madan Mohan Malaviya
1910	Allahabad	William Wedderburn
1911	Calcutta	Bishan Narayan Dar
1912	Bankipur	Rao Bahadur Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar
1913	Karachi	Nawab Syed Mohammad Bahadur
1914	Madras	Bhupendra Nath Bose
1915	Bombay	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
1916	Lucknow	Ambica Charan Mazumdar
1917	Calcutta	Annie Besant
1918	Bombay	Syed Hasan Imam
1918	Delhi	Madan Mohan Malaviya
1919	Amritsar	Motilal Nehru
1920	Calcutta	Lala Lajpat Rai
1920	Nagpur	C. Vijayaraghavachariar
1921	Ahmedabad	Hakim Ajmal Khan
1922	Gaya	Chittaranjan Das
1923	Cocanada	Maulana Mohammad Ali
1923	Delhi	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
1924	Belgaum	Mahatma Gandhi
1925	Kanpur	Sarojini Naidu
1926	Gauhati	S. Srinivasa Iyengar
1927	Madras	Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari
1928	Calcutta	Motilal Nehru
1929	Lahore	Jawaharlal Nehru
1931	Karachi	Vallabhbhai Patel
1932	Delhi	Madan Mohan Malaviya
1933	Calcutta	Nellie Sen Gupta/Madan Mohan Malaviya
1934	Bombay	Rajendra Prasad
1935	Lucknow	Jawaharlal Nehru
1936	Faizpur	Jawaharlal Nehru
1938	Haripura	Subhas Chandra Bose
1939	Tripuri	Subhas Chandra Bose
1940	Ramgarh	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
1946	Meerut	J. B. Kripalani
1948	Jaipur	Pattabhi Sitaramayya
1950	Nashik	Purshottam Das Tandon
1951	New Delhi	Jawaharlal Nehru
1953	Hyderabad	Jawaharlal Nehru
1954	Kalyani	Jawaharlal Nehru
1955	Avadi (Madras)	U. N. Dhebar
1956	Amritsar	U. N. Dhebar
1957	Indore	U. N. Dhebar
1958	Gauhati	U. N. Dhebar
1959	Nagpur	U. N. Dhebar
1960	Bangalore	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
1961	Bhavnagar	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
1962	Patna	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
1964	Bhubaneswar	K. Kamaraj
1965	Durgapur	K. Kamaraj
1966	Jaipur	K. Kamaraj
1968	Hyderabad	S. Nijalingappa
1969	Faridabad	S. Nijalingappa
1969	Bombay	Jagjivan Ram
1972	Calcutta	Shankar Dayal Sharma
1975	Chandigarh	Dev Kanta Borooah
1978	New Delhi	Indira Gandhi
1983	Calcutta	Indira Gandhi
1985	Bombay	Rajiv Gandhi
1992	Tirupati	P. V. Narasimha Rao

1997 Calcutta Sitaram Kesri

Today in India History (29th December)

December 29, 1844

• Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee or Umesh Chandra Banerjee, the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885, is born in Calcutta. He was also the first Indian to fight the election to British Parliament.

Today in India History (28th December)

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December 28 1885

The Indian National Congress (INC) is Founded by A.O. Hume in Mumbai. First session of INC was held in Mumbai from 28 –31 December in 1885.

Today in India History (27th December)

·         The famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib during the Mughal period was born in Agra on 27 December 1797. Today is Ghalib's 215th birth anniversary.

Today in India History (26th December)

• Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur Shah or Babur, as he is generally called, died on 26^th December at the age of 47 in 1530 in Agra. Babur was the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526. The Mughal rule in India came to an end in 1857 when it last ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Burma by the British.

• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, founder of Young Bengal Movement, passes away on 26^th December 1831 at a young age of 22 in Calcutta.

Today in India History (25th December)

Leading nationalist and patriot Madan Mohan Malaviya was born on 25^th December 1961 in Allahabad. He is the founder of Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and remained its vice-chancellor from 1919 to 1938.