CONGRESS SESSIONS

YEAR 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1918 1919 1920 1920 1921 1922 1923 1923 1924 1925 PRESIDENT W.C.Bannerjee Dadabhai naoroji Badruddin Tyabji George Yule Sir William Wedderburn Pherozshah Mehta P.Ananda Charlu W.C.Bannerjee Dadabhai naoroji Alfred Webb S.N.Banerjee Rahimtulla m Sayani C.Sankaran Nair Ananda mohan Bose R.C.Dutta N.G.Chandavarkar D.E.Wacha Hasan Imam and S.N.Banerjee Lal Mohan Ghosh Sir Henry Cotton G.K.Gokhale Dadabhai naoroji Dr.Rash Behari Ghosh Dr.Rash Behari Ghosh Madan Mohan Malaviya Sir William Wedderburn Pandit B.N.Dhar R.N.Modholkar Nawab Syed Mohd.Bahadur Bhupendranath Basu Sir S P Sinha Ambika Charan Majumdar Mrs.Annie Besant Hasan Imam (special session) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Motilal Nehru Lala Lajpat Rai (special session) C.vijayraghavachariar C.R.Das(in Prison)Hakim Ajmal Khan(acting) C.R.Das Maulana Abul Kalam Azad(special session ) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad(annual ) Mahatma Gandhi Mrs.Sarojini Naidu VENUE Bombay Calcutta Madras Allahabad Bombay Calcutta Nagpur Allahabad Lahore Madras Poona Calcutta Amravati Madras Lucknow Lahore Calcutta Bombay and Ahmedabad Madras Bombay Benaras Calcutta Surat Madras Lahore Allahabad Calcutta Bonkipore Karachi Madras Bombay Lucknow Calcutta Delhi Amritsar Calcutta Nagpur Ahmedabad Gaya Delhi Kakinada Belgium Cawnpore

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1936 1936-37 1938 1939 1940 1941-45 1946

S.Srinivasa Iyengar Dr.M.A.Ansari Pandit Motilal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru (No Session) Vallabhai Patel R.Amritlal (session was banned) Mrs J.M.Sen Gupta(session was banned) Rajendra Prasad(Continued again for 1935) Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru S.C.Bose S.C.Bose Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (No Session) Acharya J.B.Kripalani B.Pattabhi Sitaramayya

Madras Guwahati Calcutta Lahore Karachi Calcutta Bombay Lucknow Faizpur Haripura Tripuri Ramgarh Meerut Jaipur

ONGRESS SESSIONS
SIGNIFIACANCE

first time british only britisher to be president twice

first time swaraj demanded split between moderates and extremists

only britisher to be president twice

Lucknow Pact for Hindu-Muslim Unity.Entry of extremists in congress 1st woman president

new constitution

youngest congress president Only time Gandhiji became president first Indian woman president

snap resolution for complete Independence passed by Nehru,Bose etc.

Purna swaraj resolution Human rights resolution

1st session in rural(Maharashtra) area,passing agrarian programme differences between Gandhiji-Bose resignation of Bose.Replaced by Rajendra Prasad

Kripalani was president at time of Independence