President of the Indian National CongressFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The President of the All India Congress Committee, and therefore of the Indian National Congress Party (INC) as a whole, is known as the Congress President.Contents 1 History 2 List of presidents of the party 3 References 4 External linksHistoryTraditionally, the post rotated between prominent members of the party, successive terms for the same person being frowned upon. During Jawaharlal Nehru's premiership, he rarely held the Presidency of INC, even though he was always head of the Legislative Party.Indira Gandhi however, institutionalised the practice of having the same person as the President and the Prime Minister after the first Congress split of 1969. Her son Rajiv Gandhi continued that practice. He was the INC President and the Prime Minister.Narasimha Rao, too held both the Congress President and the Prime Minister's posts. Sitaram Kesri held the post after INC was voted out. But as the INC never returned to power under his leadership, he didn't hold the two posts together.In 2004, when the INC was voted back Dr Manmohan Singh became the first INC Prime Minister, not to be the INC President since the practice began. This was indicative of the position Sonia Gandhi held vis--vis the Prime Minister. Sonia Gandhi is the current Congress President.[1]List of presidents of the partyName of PresidentYear of PresidencyPlace of Conference

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee1885Bombay

Dadabhai Naoroji1886Calcutta

Badruddin Tyabji1887Madras

George Yule1888Allahabad

William Wedderburn1889Bombay

Pherozeshah Mehta1890Calcutta

Anandacharlu1891Nagpur

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee1892Allahabad

Dadabhai Naoroji1893Lahore

Alfred Webb1894Madras

Surendranath Banerjee1895Poona

Rahimtulla M. Sayani1896Calcutta

C. Sankaran Nair1897Amraoti

Anandamohan Bose1898Madras

Romesh Chunder Dutt1899Lucknow

N. G. Chandavarkar1900Lahore

Dinshaw Edulji Wacha1901Calcutta

Surendranath Banerjee1902Ahmedabad

Lalmohan Ghosh1903Madras

Henry Cotton1904Bombay

Gopal Krishna Gokhale1905Benares

Dadabhai Naoroji1906Calcutta

Rashbihari Ghosh1907Surat

Rashbihari Ghosh1908Madras

Madan Mohan Malaviya1909Lahore

William Wedderburn1910Allahabad

Bishan Narayan Dar1911Calcutta

Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar1912Bankipur

Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur1913Karachi

Bhupendra Nath Bose1914Madras

Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha1915Bombay

Ambica Charan Mazumdar1916Lucknow

Annie Besant1917Calcutta

Madan Mohan Malaviya1918Delhi

Syed Hasan Imam1918Bombay (Special Session)

Motilal Nehru1919Amritsar

Lala Lajpat Rai1920Calcutta (Special Session)

C. Vijayaraghavachariar1920Nagpur

Hakim Ajmal Khan1921Ahmedabad

Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das1922Gaya

Mohammad Ali Jouhar1923Kakinada

Abul Kalam Azad1923Delhi (Special Session)

Mohandas Gandhi1924Belgaum

Sarojini Naidu1925Kanpur

S. Srinivasa Iyengar1926Gauhati

Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari1927Madras

Motilal Nehru1928Calcutta

Jawaharlal Nehru1929 & 30Lahore

Vallabhbhai Patel1931Karachi

Madan Mohan Malaviya1932Delhi

Madan Mohan Malaviya1933Calcutta

Nellie Sengupta1933Calcutta

Rajendra Prasad1934 & 35Bombay

Jawaharlal Nehru1936Lucknow

Jawaharlal Nehru1936& 37Faizpur

Subhas Chandra Bose1938Haripura, Gujarat

Subhas Chandra Bose (resigned)Rajendra Prasad replaced Bose afterthe session.1939Tripuri, Madhya Pradesh / Chhatisgadh

Abul Kalam Azad194046Ramgarh

J. B. Kripalani1947Meerut

Pattabhi Sitaraimayya1948 & 49Jaipur

Purushottam Das Tandon1950Nasik

Jawaharlal Nehru1951 & 52Delhi

Jawaharlal Nehru1953Hyderabad

Jawaharlal Nehru1954Calcutta

U. N. Dhebar1955Avadi

U. N. Dhebar1956Amritsar

U. N. Dhebar1957Indore

U. N. Dhebar1958Gauhati

U. N. Dhebar1959Nagpur

Indira Gandhi1959Delhi

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1960Bangalore

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1961Bhavnagar

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1962 & 63Patna

K. Kamaraj1964Bhubaneswar

K. Kamaraj1965Durgapur

K. Kamaraj1966 & 67Jaipur

S. Nijalingappa1968Hyderabad

S. Nijalingappa1968Gujarat

P. Mehul1969Faridabad

Jagjivan Ram1970 & 71Bombay

Shankar Dayal Sharma1972 74Calcutta

Devakanta Barua1975 77Chandigarh

Indira Gandhi1978 83Delhi

Indira Gandhi1983-84Calcutta

Rajiv Gandhi1985-91Bombay

P. V. Narasimha Rao1992-96Tirupati

Sitaram Kesri1996-98Calcutta

Sonia Gandhi1998presentCalcutta