26 - Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress - Part-1                 

GK BY - SANJAY UTTAM 13/APRIL/2016 

1.FOUNDED - 28DEC / 1885

2.Headquarters - NEW Delhi

3.FOUNDER - A.O.HUME

The Founding Years (1885-1900)

Session		Place	Date	President	Total No. of Delegate
	1st Session	Bombay	Dec. 28-30, 1885	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	72
	2nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 27-30, 1886	Dadabhai Naoroji	434
	3rd Session	Madras	Dec. 27-30, 1887	Badruddin Tyabji	607
	4th Session	Allahabad	Dec, 26-29, 1888	George Yule	1248
	5th Session	Bombay	Dec. 26-28, 1889	Sir William Wedderburn	1889
	6th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-30, 1890	Pherozeshah Mehta	677
	8th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 28-30, 1892	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	625
	10th Session	Madras	Dec. 26-29, 1894	Alfred Webb	1163
	11th Session	Poona	Dec. 27-30, 1895	Surendranath Banerjee	1584
	12th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 28-31, 1896	Rahimatullah M. Sayani	784
	13th Session	Amraoti	Dec. 27-29, 1897	C. Sankaran Nair	692
	14th Session	Madras	Dec. 29-31, 1898	Ananda Mohan Bose	614
	15th Session	Lucknow	Dec. 27-30, 1899	Romesh Chunder Dutt	739
	16th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-29, 1900	N.G. Chandavarkar	567
	7th Session	Nagpur	Dec. 28-30, 1891	P. Ananda Charlu	812
	9th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-30, 1893	Dadabhai Naoroji	867

The Pre Independence Era (1900-1947)

Session		Place	Date	President	Total No. of Delegate
	17th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-28, 1901	Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha	896
	18th Session	Ahmedabad	Dec. 28-30, 1902	Surendranath Banerjee	471
	19th Session	Madras	Dec. 28-30, 1903	Lal Mohan Ghosh	538
	20th Session	Bombay	Dec. 26-28, 1904	Sir Henry Cotton	1010
	21st Session	Benares	Dec. 27-30, 1905	Gopal Krishna Gokhale	757
	22nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-29, 1906	Dadabhai Naoroji	1663
	23rd Session	Surat	Dec. 26-27, 1907 approx	Rash Behari Ghosh	1600
	23rd Session (contd.)	Madras	Dec. 28-30, 1908	Rash Behari Ghosh	562
	24th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-29, 1909	Madan Mohan Malaviya	243
	25th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 26-29, 1910	Sir William Wedderburn	636
	26th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-28, 1911	Bishan Narayan Dar	446
	28th Session	Karachi	Dec. 26-28, 1913	Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur	349
	30th Session	Bombay	Dec. 27-29, 1915	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha	2259
	31st Session	Lucknow	Dec. 26-30, 1916	Ambica Charan Mazumdar	2298
	32nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-29, 1917	Annie Besant	4967
	(Special Session)	Bombay	Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1918	Syed Hasan Imam	3845
	33rd Session	Delhi	Dec. 26-31, 1918	Madan Mohan Malaviya	4865
	34th Session	Amritsar	Dec. 26-30, 1919	Motilal Nehru	7031
	35th Session	Nagpur	Dec. 26-31, 1920	C. Vijayaraghavachariar	14582
	36th Session	Ahmedabad	Dec. 27-28, 1921	Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das)	4728
	37th Session	Gaya	Dec. 26-31, 1922	C.R. Das	3248
	(Special Session)	Delhi		Abul Kalam Azad	0
	39th Session	Belgaum	Dec. 26-27, 1924	M.K. Gandhi	1844
	40th Session	Kanpur	Dec. 26-28, 1925	Shri B.K. Hariprasad	2688
	41st Session	Gauhati	Dec. 26-28, 1926	S. Srinivasa Iyengar	3000
	42nd Session	Madras	Dec. 26-28, 1927	M.A. Ansari	2711
	43rd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 29, 1928-Jan. 1, 1929	Motilal Nehru	5221
	45th Session	Karachi	Mar. 29-31, 1931	Vallabbhai J. Patel	0
	46th Session	Delhi	Apr. 24, 1932 (Banned)	Ranchod Lal Amrit Lal	0
	47th Session	Calcutta	March, 1933 (Banned)	Nellie Sen Gupta	0
	48th Session	Bombay	Oct. 24-28, 1934	Rajendra Prasad	0
	51st Session	Haripura	Feb. 19-21, 1938	Subhash Chandra Bose	0
	52nd Session	Tripuri	Mar. 10-12, 1939	Subhash Chandra Bose	2285
	53rd Session	Ramgarh	Mar. 19-20, 1940	Abul Kalam Azad	0
	54th Session	Meerut	Nov. 23-24, 1946	J.B. Kripalani	0

The Post Independence Era (1947-1990)

Session		Place	Date	President	Total No. of Delegate
	55th Session	Jaipur	Dec. 18, 1948	B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya	0
	56th Session	Nasik	Sept. 21-22, 1950	Purushottam Das Tandon	0
	60th Session	Avadi (Madras)	Jan. 21-23, 1955 approx.	Shri Bharat Kumar	1500
	61st Session	Amritsar	Feb. 11-12, 1956 approx.	Shri Bharat Kumar	1600
	62nd Session	Indore	Jan. 5-6, 1957 approx.	Shri Bharat Kumar	1100
	63rd Session	Gauhati	Jan. 18-19, 1958	Shri Bharat Kumar	0
	64th Session	Nagpur	Jan. 9-11, 1959	Shri Bharat Kumar	0
	65th Session	Bangalore	Jan. 16-17, 1960	N. Sanjiva Reddy	0
	66th Session	Bhavnagar	Jan. 6-7, 1961	N. Sanjiva Reddy	0
	71st Session	Hyderabad	Jan. 10-11, 1968	S. Nijalingappa	0
	72nd Session	Faridabad	Apr. 27-28, 1969	S. Nijalingappa	0
	73rd Session	Bombay	Dec. 28-29, 1969	Jagjivan Ram	0
	74th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 28-29, 1972	Shankar Dayal Sharma	0
	75th Session	Chandigarh	Dec. 31, 1975-Jan. 1, 1976	D.K. Barooah	0
	76th Session	New Delhi	Jan. 1-2, 1978	Indira Gandhi	0
	77th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 29-30, 1983	Indira Gandhi	0
	78th (Centenary) Session	Bombay	December 28, 1985	Rajiv Gandhi	0

The Post Liberalization Era (1990-2010)

Session		Place	Date	President	Total No. of Delegate
	79th Session	Tirupati (A.P.)	April 14-16, 1992	P.V. Narasimha Rao	0
	Special Session	Surajkund (Haryana)	March 27-28, 1993	P.V. Narasimha Rao	950
	Special Session	Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi	June 10- 11, 1994	P.V. Narasimha Rao	880
	80th Session	Calcutta	August 8-10, 1997	Sitaram Kesri	1075
	Special Session	New Delhi	April 6, 1998	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	1000
	Chintan Shivir	Panchmarhi (M.P.)	Sept. 4-6, 1998	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	250
	Special session	Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi	December 18, 1998	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0
	Special Session	Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi	May 25, 1999	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0
	81st Session	Bangalore	February 14, 16, 2001	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0
	Chintan Shivir	Shimla (H.P.)	July 9, 10, 11, 2003	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0
	Special session	Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi	August 21, 2004	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0
	82nd Session	Hyderabad	January 2006	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	12000
	83rd Plenary Session	New Delhi	2010	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0
	Chintan Shivir	Jaipur	January 18-19, 2013-08-24	Smt. Sonia Gandhi	0