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How many delegates participated in the first session of the Indian National Congress?
1. 15
2. 84
3. 72
4. 43

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Correct Answer - Option 3 : 72

The correct answer is 72.

  • Indian National Congress
    • It was formed in 1885 by a member of the Imperial Civil Service, A.O. Hume did it.
    • The first meeting of the Indian National Congress was held on 28 December 1885.
    • The first session was held in a hall of Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay.
    • Womesh Chandra Banerjee was the first President of the Indian National Congress. He was an Indian barrister.
    • In the first session, 39 out of 72 were lawyers and the trend continued i.e. more than a third of the representatives were from legal backgrounds. Hence option 3 is correct.
    • The first session of the Congress was proposed in Poona, but due to the outbreak of plague in Poona, the venue was shifted to Bombay.

Important INC Sessions

Year

President

Venue

1885

W C Banerjee

Bombay

1904

Henry Cotton

Bombay

1906

Dadabhai Naoroji

Calcutta

1907

Rash Behari Ghosh

Surat

1909

Madan Mohan Malaviya

Lahore

1911

Bishan Narayan Dar

Calcutta

1916

Ambica Charan Mazumdar

Lucknow

1917

Annie Besant

Calcutta

1924

Gandhiji

Belgaum

1925

Sarojini Naidu

Kanpur

1929

Jawaharlal Nehru

Lahore

1938

Subhas Chandra Bose

Haripura

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