Question

The last session of Indian National Congress attended by Bal Gangadhar Tilak was
1. Calcutta Session, 1906
2. Surat Session, 1907
3. Calcutta Session, 1917
4. Amritsar Session, 1919

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Amritsar Session, 1919

The correct answer is Amritsar Session, 1919. 

• The last session of the Indian National Congress attended by Bal Gangadhar Tilak was Amritsar Session, 1919.
• By holding its 34th Session at Amritsar in 1919, the Congress expressed its deep solidarity with the people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the city earlier that year.
• Under the presidentship of Motilal Nehru, Congress condemned the massacre in the strongest of terms.
• Allan Octavian Hume, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, and Dadabhai Naoroji founded Indian National Congress in 1885.
• The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in Bombay from 28 - 30 December 1885 under the chairmanship of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee.

•  In Calcutta, 1906 session Dadabhai Naoroji Adopted four resolutions on Swaraj (Self Government), Boycott Movement, Swadeshi & National Education.
• The Congress session at Calcutta in 1906, presided by Dadabhai Naoroji, gave a call for the attainment of 'Swaraj' a type of self-government elected by the people within the British Dominion, as it prevailed in Canada and Australia, which were also the parts of the British Empire.
• In 1907, the Surat session, under the presidency of Rash Bihari Ghosh Split in Congress- Moderates & Extremists.
• The Surat Session of the Congress was marred by disturbances.
• Extremist leaders like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, and Bipin Chandra Pal were pushing for resolutions on Swaraj, Boycott, and national education while the moderate leaders like Surendranath Banerjea and Gopal Krishna Gokhale were advocating a softer approach.
• In 1917, in Calcutta Session, Indian National Congress appoints Annie Besant as First Woman President of Congress.