List of National Congress Sessions
The Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume. He was a member of the Imperial Civil Service and a political reformer. The Indian National Congress conducted its first session in Bombay from 28th December to 31st December 1885. Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was the first president of Congress and the first session was attended by 72 delegates, representing each province of India. Here is the list of each sessions till India got Independence.
| Session | Palce | Date | President |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54th Session | Meerut | Nov. 23-24, 1946 | J.B. Kripalani |
| 53rd Session | Ramgarh | Mar. 19-20, 1940 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| 52nd Session | Tripura | Mar. 10-12, 1939 | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| 51st Session | Haripura | Feb. 19-21, 1938 | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| 50th Session | Faizpur | Jul. 12-14, 1937 | Pt Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 49th Session | Lucknow | Jun. 18-20, 1936 | Pt Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 48th Session | Bombay | Oct. 24-28, 1934 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 47th Session | Calcutta | Sep. 12-14, 1933 | Mrs. Nellie Sengupta |
| 45th Session | Karachi | Mar. 21-31, 1931 | Vallabbhai J. Patel |
| 44th Session | Lahore | Apr. 16-18, 1929 | Pt Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 43rd Session | Calcutta | Dec. 29-01, 1929 | Motilal Nehru |
| 42nd Session | Madras | Dec. 26-28, 1927 | M.A. Ansari |
| 41st Session | Gawahati | Dec. 26-28, 1926 | S. Srinivasa Iyengar |
| 40th Session | Cawnpore | Apr. 15-17, 1925 | Mrs. Sarojini Naidu |
| 39th Session | Belgaum | Dec. 26-27, 1924 | M.K. Gandhi |
| Special Session | Delhi | Sep. 04-08, 1923 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| 37th Session | Gaya | Dec. 26-31, 1922 | Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das |
| 36th Session | Ahmedabad | Dec. 27-28, 1921 | Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das) |
| 35th Session | Nagpur | Dec. 26-30, 1920 | C. Vijayaraghavachariar |
| 34th Session | Amritsar | Dec. 26-30, 1919 | Motilal Nehru |
| (Special Session) | Bombay | Aug. 29-01, 1918 | Syed Hasan Imam |
| 33rd Session | Delhi | Dec. 26-30, 1918 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| 32nd Session | Calcutta | Dec. 26-29, 1917 | Annie Besant |
| 31st Session | Lucknow | Dec. 26-30, 1916 | Ambica Charan Mazumdar |
| 30th Session | Bombay | Dec. 27-29, 1915 | Satyendra Prasanna Sinha |
| 29th Session | Madras | Apr. 14-15, 1914 | Bhupendra Nath Bose |
| 28th Session | Karachi | Dec. 26-28, 1913 | Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur |
| 27th Session | Bankipore | Dec. 26-28, 1912 | Shri Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar |
| 26th Session | Calcutta | Dec. 26-28, 1911 | Bishan Narayan Dar |
| 25th Session | Allahabad | Dec. 26-29, 1910 | Sir William Wedderburn |
| 24th Session | Lahore | Dec. 27-29, 1909 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| 23rd Session | Madras | Dec. 28-30, 1908 | Rash Behari Ghosh |
| 23rd Session (Suspended) | Surat | Dec. 26-27, 1907 | Rash Behari Ghosh |
| 22nd Session | Calcutta | Dec. 26-29, 1906 | Shri Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 21st Session | Banaras | Dec. 27-30, 1905 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| 20th Session | Bombay | Dec. 26-28, 1903 | Sir Henry Cotton |
| 19th Session | Madras | Dec. 28-30, 1903 | Lal Mohan Ghosh |
| 18th Session | Ahmedabad | Dec. 28-30, 1902 | Surendranath Banerjee |
| 17th Session | Calcutta | Dec. 26-28, 1901 | Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha |
| 16th Session | Lahore | Dec. 27-29, 1900 | N.G. Chandavarkar |
| 15th Session | Lucknow | Dec. 27-29, 1899 | Romesh Chunder Dutt |
| 14th Session | Madras | Dec. 29-31, 1898 | Ananda Mohan Bose |
| 13th Session | Amraoti | Dec. 27-29, 1897 | C. Sankaran Nair |
| 12th Session | Calcutta | Dec. 28-31, 1896 | Rahimatullah M. Sayani |
| 11th Session | Pune | Dec. 27-30, 1895 | Surendranath Banerjee |
| 10th Session | Madras | Dec. 26-29, 1894 | Alfred Webb |
| 9th Session | Lahore | Dec. 27-30, 1893 | Shri Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 8th Session | Allahabad | Dec. 28-30, 1892 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
| 7th Session | Nagpur | Dec. 28-30, 1891 | P. Ananda Charlu |
| 6th Session | Calcutta | Dec. 26-30, 1890 | Pherozeshah Mehta |
| 5th Session | Bombay | Dec. 26-28, 1889 | Sir William Wedderburn |
| 4th Session | Allahabad | Dec. 26-29, 1888 | George Yule |
| 3rd Session | Madras | Dec. 27-30, 1887 | Badruddin Tyabji |
| 2nd Session | Calcutta | Dec. 27-30, 1886 | Shri Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1st Session | Bombay | Dec. 28-30, 1885 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
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