List of Presidents of the Indian National Congress (INC) - Indian National Congress Leaders 2017
● The Indian National Congress (INC) is one of the oldest parties in the political system of Republic of India.
● Formed in 1885 by A.O.Hume, an Englishman and a retired civil servant.
● Hume’s main purpose was probably to provide a “safety valve” to the growing discontent among the educated Indians.
● Other important leaders during foundation were Dadabhai Naoroji, Badrudin Tyabji, Anand Mohan Bose, R.C.Dutt, Ferozshah Mehta, G.K.Gokhale, G. Subramaniyam Aiyyar, Dinshaw Vacha, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Madan Mohan Malviya.
● First session in Bombay under W.C.Banerjee in 1885 (72 delegates attended it).
● In the first two decades (1885-1905), quite moderate in its approach and confided in British justice and generosity.
● But the repressive measures of the British gave rise to extremists within Congress like Bipin Chandra Pal, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai (Lal, Bal, Pal).
● The current president of this party is Sonia Gandhi.
Here is a list of all Congress party presidents:
| Name of President | Year of Presidency | Place of Conference |
| Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee | 1885 | Bombay |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1886 | Calcutta |
| Badruddin Tyabji | 1887 | Madras |
| George Yule | 1888 | Allahabad |
| William Wedderburn | 1889 | Bombay |
| Pherozeshah Mehta | 1890 | Calcutta |
| Anandacharlu | 1891 | Nagpur |
| Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee | 1892 | Allahabad |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1893 | Lahore |
| Alfred Webb | 1894 | Madras |
| Surendranath Banerjee | 1895 | Poona |
| Rahimtulla M. Sayani | 1896 | Calcutta |
| C. Sankaran Nair | 1897 | Amravati |
| Anandamohan Bose | 1898 | Madras |
| Romesh Chunder Dutt | 1899 | Lucknow |
| N. G. Chandavarkar | 1900 | Lahore |
| Dinshaw Edulji Wacha | 1901 | Calcutta |
| Surendranath Banerjee | 1902 | Ahmedabad |
| Lalmohan Ghosh | 1903 | Madras |
| Henry Cotton | 1904 | Bombay |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | 1905 | Benares |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1906 | Calcutta |
| Rashbihari Ghosh | 1907, 1908 | Surat, Madras |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1909 | Lahore |
| William Wedderburn | 1910 | Allahabad |
| Bishan Narayan Dar | 1911 | Calcutta |
| Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar | 1912 | Bankipore |
| Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur | 1913 | Karachi |
| Bhupendra Nath Bose | 1914 | Madras |
| Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha | 1915 | Bombay |
| Ambica Charan Mazumdar | 1916 | Lucknow |
| Annie Besant | 1917 | Calcutta |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1918 | Delhi |
| Syed Hasan Imam | 1918 | Bombay (Special Session) |
| Motilal Nehru | 1919 | Amritsar |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | 1920 | Calcutta |
| C. Vijayaraghavachariar | 1920 | Nagpur (Special Session) |
| Hakim Ajmal Khan | 1921 | Ahmedabad |
| Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das | 1922 | Gaya |
| Mohammad Ali Jouhar | 1923 | Kakinada |
| Abul Kalam Azad | 1923 | Delhi (Special Session) |
| Mohandas Gandhi | 1924 | Belgaum |
| Sarojini Naidu | 1925 | Kanpur |
| S. Srinivasa Iyengar | 1926 | Gauhati |
| Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari | 1927 | Madras |
| Motilal Nehru | 1928 | Calcutta |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1929 & 30 | Lahore |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | 1931 | Karachi |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1932 | Delhi |
| Nellie Sengupta | 1933 | Calcutta |
| Rajendra Prasad | 1934 & 35 | Bombay |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1936, 1937 | Lucknow, Faizpur |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | 1938 | Haripura |
| Subhas Chandra Bose (resigned) Rajendra Prasad replaced Bose after the session. | 1939 | Jabalpur |
| Abul Kalam Azad | 1940–46 | Ramgarh |
| J. B. Kripalani | 1947 |
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| Pattabhi Sitaraimayya | 1948 & 49 | Jaipur |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | 1950 | Nasik |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1951 & 52, 1953, 1954 | Delhi, Hyderabad, Calcutta |
| U. N. Dhebar | 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 | Avadi, Amritsar, Indore, Gauhati, Nagpur |
| Indira Gandhi | 1959 | Delhi (Special Session) |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 1960, 1961, 1962 & 63 | Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Patna |
| K. Kamaraj | 1964, 1965, 1966 & 67 | Bhubaneswar, Durgapur, Jaipur |
| S. Nijalingappa | 1968, 1969 | Hyderabad, Faridabad |
| Jagjivan Ram | 1970 & 71 | Bombay |
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | 1972–74 | Calcutta |
| Devakanta Barua | 1975–77 | Chandigarh |
| Indira Gandhi | 1978–83, 1983 & 84 | Delhi, Calcutta |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1985–91 | Bombay |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 1992–96 | Tirupati |
| Sitaram Kesri | 1996–98 | Calcutta |
| Sonia Gandhi | 1998–2017 | Calcutta |
| Rahul Gandhi | 2017–present | Delhi |
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