Congress Sessions

No. of Session   Year Place President 1st Session 1885 Bombay Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 2nd Session 1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji 3rd Session 1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji 4th Session 1888 Allahabad George Yule 5th Session 1889 Bombay Sir William Wedderburn 6th Session 1890 Calcutta Sir Pherozeshah Mehta 7th Session 1891 Nagpur P. Ananda Charlu 8th Session 1892 Allahabad Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 9th Session 1893 Lahore Dadabhai Naoroji 10th Session 1894 Madras Alfred Webb 11th Session 1895 Pune Surendranath Banerjee 12th Session 1896 Calcutta Rahimtulla M. Sayani 13th Session 1897 Amraoti (Mah.) Sir C. Sankaran Nair 14th Session 1898 Madras Ananda Mohan Bose 15th Session 1899 Lucknow Romesh Chander Dutta 16th Session 1900 Lahore Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar 17th Session 1901 Calcutta Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha 18th Session 1902 Ahmedabad Surendranath Banerjee 19th Session 1903 Madras Lal Mohan Ghosh 20th Session 1904 Bombay Sir Henry Cotton 21st Session 1905 Benaras Gopal Krishna Gokhale 22nd Session 1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji Suspended Session 1907 Surat Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh 23rd Session 1908 Madras Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh 24th Session 1909 Lahore Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya 25th Session 1910 Allahabad Sir William Wedderburn 26th Session 1911 Calcutta Pt. Bishan Narayan Dhar 27th Session 1912 Bankipore (Patna) Rao Bahadur Raghunath Narasinha Modholkar 28th Session 1913 Karachi Nawab Syed Mohammad Bahadur 29th Session 1914 Madras Bhupendra Nath Basu 30th Session 1915 Bombay Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 31st Session 1916 Lucknow Ambica Charan Mazumdar 32nd Session 1917 Calcutta Dr. Annie Besant 33rd Session 1918 New Delhi Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya Special Session 1918 Bombay Syed Hasan Imam 34th Session 1919 Amritsar Pandit Motilal Nehru 35th Session 1920 Nagpur C. Vijayaraghavachariar Special Session 1920 Calcutta Lala Lajpat Rai 36th Session 1921 Ahmedabad Hakim Ajmal Khan 37th Session 1922 Gaya (Bihar) Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das 38th Session 1923 Cocanada (Andhra) Maulana Mohammad Ali Special Session 1923 New Delhi Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 39th Session 1924 Belgaum (Karnataka) Mahatma Gandhi 40th Session 1925 Cawnpore Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 41st Session 1926 Gauhati S. Srinivasa Iyengar 42nd Session 1927 Madras Dr. M. A. Ansari 43rd Session 1928 Calcutta Pt. Motilal Nehru 44th Session 1929 Lahore Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 45th Session 1931 Karachi Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 46th Session (Banned) 1932 New Delhi (without President) Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya was elected as President 47th Session (Banned) 1933 Calcutta (Mrs. Nellie Sengupta presided) Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya was again elected President. 48th Session 1934 Bombay Dr. Rajendra Prasad 49th Session 1936 Lucknow Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 50th Session 1937 Faizpur Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 51st Session 1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra Bose 52nd Session 1939 Tripuri Subhas Chandra Bose 53rd Session 1940 Ramgarh Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 54th Session 1946 Meerut Acharya J. B. Kripalani 55th Session 1948 Jaipur Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya 56th Session 1950 Nasik Purshottam Das Tandon 57th Session 1951 New Delhi Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 58th Session 1953 Hyderabad Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 59th Session 1954 Kalyani Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru 60th Session 1955 Avadi (Madras) U. N. Dhebar 61st Session 1956 Amritsar U. N. Dhebar 62nd Session 1957 Indore U. N. Dhebar 63rd Session 1958 Gauhati U. N. Dhebar 64th Session 1959 Nagpur U. N. Dhebar 65th Session 1960 Bangalore Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy 66th Session 1961 Bhavnagar Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy 67th Session 1962 Patna Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy 68th Session 1964 Bhubaneshwar K. Kamaraj 69th Session 1965 Durgapur K. Kamaraj 70th Session 1966 Jaipur K. Kamaraj 71st Session 1968 Hyderabad S. Nijalingappa 72nd Session 1969 Faridabad S. Nijalingappa 73rd Session 1969 Bombay Babu Jagjivan Ram 74th Session 1972 Calcutta Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma 75th Session 1975 Chandigarh Dev Kanta Borooah 76th Session 1978 New Delhi Smt. Indira Gandhi 77th Session 1983 Calcutta Smt. Indira Gandhi 78th Session 1985 Bombay Rajiv Gandhi 79th Session 1992 Tirupati (Andhra) P. V. Narasimha Rao 80th Session 1997 Calcutta Sitaram Kesri 81st Session 2001 Bangalore Smt. Sonia Gandhi 82nd Session 2006 Hyderabad Smt. Sonia Gandhi 83rd Session 2010 Delhi Smt. Sonia Gandhi