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Who was the first president of “The Indian National Congress”?
Answer: INC’s first president was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. INC, or The Indian National Congress, was founded in 1885 and grew and became one of the greatest powerful and influential political organisations in India before independence. In 1885, the Indian National Congress convened for the first time.
The inaugural sitting of the Indian National Congress (INC) was convened in Bombay on December 28, 1885, and lasted through December 31. It was founded by Allan Octavian Hume, a retired British civil worker, with Dinshaw Wacha and Dadabhai Naoroji.
After 1933, the president was never given such a stable structure. Even though Jawaharlal Nehru was always the Legislative Party’s president, he never kept the INC’s leadership during his government. Indira Gandhi’s Party, although having a structure, did not have any organisational elections after 1978.
In 1978, Gandhi split from the INC and created Congress (I). The national electoral commission approved this separate political organisation as the genuine Indian National Congress for such a 1980 voting campaign. Gandhi introduced having the same person serve as Prime Minister of India and President after the Congress was constituted (I). Her replacements were P. V. Narasimha Rao and Rajiv Gandhi.
There have been 61 members in the Indian National Congress since its formation. Sonia Gandhi was the party’s longest-serving member, having led it for over 2 decades, from 1998 to 2017 and till 2019.
After nearly two decades, Sonia Gandhi was elected as president of the Indian National Congress, and the party is gearing up to welcome her. Because as the nomination process nears its conclusion, it is expected that Sonia Gandhi’s son Rahul Gandhi will be nominated without opposition.
The party was not founded to demand independence from British authority. It was designed to bring together such a group of intellectual people on a single platform to influence legislation.
