INC

@Founded on 28 December 1885 by A O Hume at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Mumbai, with 72 delegates in attendance.
@First president : W C Bannerjee
@General Secretary : A O Hume
@A.O. Hume published a pamphlet entitled ‘An Old Man’s Hope’.
@ Nine resolutions were passed in the first session. The first resolution was presented by G Subrahmanya Ayyar
@ Safty Valve Theory related to INC
@The name INC was given by Dadabhai Naoroji 
@Lord Dufferin was the british viceroy at the time of formation of INC
@The only malayalie participated in the first session of INC was Barrister G P Pillai

@The second session of INC was held at Kolkata in 1886 and the president was Dadabhai Naoroji. He was elected 3 times as president of INC.

@The third session of INC was held at Madras in 1887 and the president was Badruddin Tyabji , who was the first Muslim president 

@The Fourth session of INC was held at Allahabad in 1888 and the president was George Yule , was the first Non-Indian president

@The Twelfth session of INC was held at Kolkata in 1896 . Vande Mataram first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore . It is a poem by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

@The Thirteenth session of INC was held at Amravati (Maharashtra) in 1897 and the president was C Sankaran Nair , who was the only malayalee president 

@1909 Lahore session president - Madan Mohan Malaviya

@The 27th session of INC was held at Kolkata in 1911 . Our National Anthem Jana Gana Mana was first sung in this session 

@Annie Besant became the first woman president in 1917 at Kolkata 

@Mahatma Gandhi became the president in 1924 at Belgium

@Sarojini Naidu became the first Indian woman president in 1925 at kanpur

Third women president in INC 1933 at kolkata : Mrs. Nellie Sengupta

@1931 Karachi Session President - Sardar Vallabhai Patel

@ In which session of the congress was the resolution passed stating that “there should be equality before law irrespective of caste, creed or sex.” ? Karachi session, 1931

Inc 3 different period or era
Moderate period (1885-1905)
Extremist period (1905-1919)
Gandhian period(1919-1947)


INC Meeting

first -Mumbai-72 
Second-Kolkata-434
Thrid-chennai-607
forth-Alahabad-1248
@The Congress split into Moderates and Extremists in 1907 at Surat ( partition of Bengal) 

@The main extremist leaders were Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal. They were called Lal Bal Pal.

@The reunion between the Moderates and Extremists took place in the Lucknow Session 1916

@ The 1929 Lahore session under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru holds special significance as in this session "Poorna Swaraj" (complete independence) was declared as the goal of the Indian National Congress. 26 January 1930 was declared as "Poorna Swaraj Diwas", Independence Day. 

@Pattabhi Sitaramayya known as official historian of Indian National Congress.

@J B Kripalani was the President of INC at the time of independence.

@ Which was the official newspaper of Indian National Congress? Congress Patrika

@ When did Subhash Chandra Bose first Elected as Congress President ? (1938 Haripura Session

@ Who is the President of Congress, when Indian National Congress Split into two groups : The extremists and the moderates ? Rash Behari Bose