SESSION OF CONGRESS
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
Bombay
Calcutta
Madras
Allahabad
Bombay
1903
1904
1905
WC Banerjee
Dadabhai Naoroji
Badruddin Tyabji
Geroge Yule
William
Wedderburn
Pherozeshah Mehta
P. Anandacharlu
WC Banerjee
Dadabhai Naoroji
Alfred Webb
Surendranath
banerjee
Rahimtulla M
Sayani
C Sankaran Nair
Anand Mohan Bose
RC Dutt
NG Chandavarkar
DE Wacha
Surendranath
Banerjee
Lal Mohan Ghose
Henry Cotton
GK Gokhle
1906
Dadabhai Naoroji
Calcutta
1907
Rash Bihari Ghose
Surat
1908
1909
1910
Rash Bihari Ghose
MM Malviya
William
Wedderburn
Bishan Narayan Dar
Madras
Lahore
Allahabad
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1911
Calcutta
Nagpur
Allahabad
Lahore
Madras
Poona
Calcutta
Amraoti
Madras
Lucknow
Lahore
Calcutta
Ahmedabad
Madras
Bombay
Benaras
Calcutta
Congress condemned the partition of Bengal and the reactionary
policies of Curzon and decided to support the anti-partition and Swadeshi
Movement of Bengal
Militant nationalists like Lal-Bal-Pal wanted to take the movement
outside Bengal and go beyond the boycott of foreign goods to become a
full-fledged political mass struggle with the goal of attaining Swaraj. But
the Moderate leadership was not ready and just wanted to stick to the 3 P‟s
Moderate-Extremist differences came to the fore
As a final compromise, a relatively mild resolution condemning the
partition of Bengal and the reactionary policies of Curzon was passed
“Self-government” or Swaraj was declared the goal of the INC.
Swaraj word was mentioned for the 1st time, but not clearly defined
Extremist Programme was at its peak
Extremist gave a call for passive resistance along with Swadeshi and
Boycott and a resolution supporting the programme of Swadeshi, boycott
and national education was passed.
Moderates saw in the council reforms an opportunity to realize their
dream of Indian participation in the administration
Aurobindo said, “Political freedom is the life-breath of a nation”
Extremists wanted the session to be held in Nagpur with Tilak or Lala
Lajpat Rai as the President
Moderates wanted the session to be held at Surat, to exclude Tilak
from the presidency post, since a leader from the host province could not be
session president and pitched in for Rash Bihari Bose
Split in Congress. AC Majumdar wanted Tilak to be elected as
President
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SESSION OF CONGRESS
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
BG Narasinha
Bankipur
Mudholkar
Nawab Syed
Karachi
Muhammad Bahadur
Bhupendranath Nath Madras
Bose
SP Sinha
Bombay
Ambika Charan
Mazumdar
Lucknow
1917
Annie Besant
1918
MM Malviya
1918
Hasan Imam
(Special)
Calcutta
Delhi
Bombay
1919
Motilal Nehru
1920
Lala Lajpat Rai
September
(Special)
Amritsar
Calcutta
1920
Vijaya raghava
December chariar
Nagpur
1921
Acting - Hakim
Ahmedabad
Ajmal Khan
Actual – CR Das, he
was in jail at that
time.
1922
Chitranjan Das
„Deshbandhu‟
Gaya
1923
Maulana
Mohammad Ali
Kakinada
Tilak and Besant tried to unite the extremists and the Moderated but
met with limited success.
Though Besant failed to get the Congress approve her demand of
Home Rule Leagues, Congress did commit itself to a programme of
educationist propaganda and revival of local-level Congress committees
Finally Besant to threaten the Congress, that if it did not implement its
commitments, she would be forced to setup her own league.
Moderates and Extremists reunited
Congress League pact was signed and a “19 point memorandum” was
submitted to British
AC Mazumdar during the session said, “…both wings of the Indian
Nationalist Party have come to realize the fact that united they stand, but
divided they fall”
Considered the reform proposals ie. Act of 1919. It declared them
unsatisfactory.
Surendranath Banerjee left the Congress since he wanted to accept the
proposals and later founded Indian Liberal Federation
Congress approved the NCM till the Punjab and Khilafat
wrongs were removed and swaraj was established.
A 7 point programme was launched which included boycott of
schools/colleges, law courts, Legislative Councils, foreign cloth, etc.
NCM was endorsed after being approved in the last session.
There was a transition from “constitutional means” to “all peaceful
and legitimate methods”
Hierarchy in the Congress was modified and membership fee reduced
to 4 annas
CWC of 15 members was constituted
Swaraj or self-government was adopted as the goal for the 1st time
Surendranath Banerjee who had left Congress in 1919, founded Indian
National Liberal Federation and played a minor role in politics henceforth
Talks b/w Gandhiji and Lord Reading broke down and
government crushed the movement heavily in May, 1921
Gandhiji was under immense pressure to start Civil
disobedience again and full authority was given to him to decide over the
issue
Finally, on Feb 01, 1922 Gandhiji threatened to launch Civil
Disobedience from Bardoli but the movement abruptly ended before it had
hardly began.
Resolution was brought in to support Council entry but got
defeated
CR Das and Motilal Nehru resigned from the Congress and in
1923, Congress Khilafat Swarajya Party was formed
In Nov 1923, the Swarajya party contested elections and won at
42 seats
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SESSION OF CONGRESS
1923
(Special)
1924
1925
1926
1927
December
Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad
Mahatma Gandhi
Sarojini Naidu
Srinivas Iyengar
MA Ansari
Delhi
Belgaum
Kanpur
Guwahati
Madras
December Motilal Nehru
1928
Calcutta
December Jawaharlal Nehru
1929
Lahore
1930
1931
Jawaharlal nehru
Vallabhbhai Patel
Lahore
Karachi
1932
1933
MM Malviya
MM Malviya &
Neelie Sengupta
Rajendra Prasad
Delhi
Calcutta
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lucknow
Jawaharlal Nehru
Faizpur
1934 &
1935
1936
1936 &
1937
This session started a month after the appointment of Simon
Commission
Decision to boycott Simon Commission, “at every stage and in every
form”
Resolution was passed which declared complete independence as the
goal of the Congress. Factions of Muslim league and Hindu Mahasabha
supported the Congress but Unionist party (Punjab) and Justice Party
decided not to boycott.
Muslim League as a gesture of solidarity even accepted the principle
of joint electorates, provided seats were reserved for the Muslims
Nehru Report is adopted by the Congress and it gives an ultimatum to
the British to accept/reject the report by December 31 st, 1929, failing which
the Congress would launch Civil Disobedience
In March 1929, Gandhiji initiated the Foreign Cloth Boycott campaign
in Calcutta and was later arrested, to be released later only on personal
recognizance
Anti-Simon Commission agitation
Nehru was appointed cum nominated, as 15/18 ministries voted
against him but Gandhiji backed him for Presidentship
British Silence on Ultimatum given by Calcutta session on the Nehru
report.
RTC was to be boycotted
Resolution of Complete Independence or Poorna Swaraj was adopted
here on 31st Dec 1929
Tri colour was hosted on 26th Jan 1930 and the day was celebrated as
Poorna Swaraj Day
The increasing communal violence and economic unrest in India on
account great depression and problems of unemployment.
Gandjiji gave an 11 point demand to the British with an ultimatum of
1 month (i.e. 31st Jan 1930)
Gandhi-Irwin pact (1931) was endorsed and decision made to
participate in RTC-2
Resolution was passed praising the role of the three revolutionaries
Resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic
Programme was passed
Spelt out for the first time what Swaraj would mean to masses
Gandhiji said, “Gandhi may die, but Gandhism will remain forever.”
Bombay
Nehru advocated Socialism in his Presidential speech which he
regarded as “the only key to the solution of the world‟s problem and of
India‟s problem.
In this session as well as the next one, Congress decided to fight in the
Feb 1937 elections
Adoption of an agrarian programme by the Congress
Nehru attacked Fascism and Congress condemned Japanese
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SESSION OF CONGRESS
1938
1939
1940
Subash Chandra
Bose
Subash Chandra
Bose
Haripura
Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad
Ramgarh
Sep 1945
Tripuri
Bombay
April 1947 Acharya JB Kriplani Delhi
1948-49
Dr. Pittabhi
Sitaraimayya
aggression of China & Italian aggression of Abyssinia
Congress rejected the Govt. of India act 1935 and demanded
constituent assembly on adult suffrage
Congress decided to fight for Feb 1937 elections and postpone the
decision on office acceptance to the post-election phase
51st session of the Congress
Debates on international and national matters were done
SC Bose defeated Pattabhi Sitaramayya (He established
Andhra Bank in Machilipatnam in 1923)
This was regarded as a victory of the Left Wing, as the Right
Wing had solidly supported Sitaramayya. Even Gandhi regarded this defeat
as his own defeat.
Finally SC Bose resigned from the Presidentship of Congress
and floated Forward Bloc in 1940
Congress decided to take a more active part in the States
People‟s movements.
Decision was taken to strengthen Congress from within before
launching Civil Disobedience movement as the organization was in
shambles lack of unity among the people; masses were tired, etc
At its 1st post-war session, in Sep 1945 a strong resolution was
adopted declaring Congress support for the INA cause
At the session, Kriplani communicated to the Viceroy –
“…rather than have a battle, we shall give them their Pakistan provided you
allow Bengal and Punjab to be partitioned in a fair manner.” (addressed to
Mountbatten)
Jaipur
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