Indian National Congress President List: The Indian National Congress (INC), one of the main political parties in India, is led by its president, who serves as its chief executive. According to the constitution, a group of individuals made up of members of the Pradesh Congress Committees and the All India Congress Committee elects the president (AICC). In this article we will be having a look at the list of presidents of Indian National Congress, both pre and post Independence. On October 17, 2022, the most recent presidential election was held, and Mallikarjun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor to win.
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List of Indian National Congress Sessions Pre-Independence
Let us have a look at the presidents of the Indian National Congress (INC).
List of Congress Presidents from 1885 till 1947 | |
YEAR | NAME OF THE PRESIDENT |
1885 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
1886 | Dadabhai Naoroji |
1887 | Badruddin Tyabji |
1888 | George Yule |
1889 | William Wedderburn |
1890 | Pherozeshah Mehta |
1891 | Panapakkam Anandacharlu |
1892 | Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
1893 | Dadabhai Naoroji |
1894 | Alfred Webb |
1895 | Surendranath Banerjee |
1896 | Rahimtulla M. Sayani |
1897 | C. Sankaran Nair |
1898 | Anandamohan Bose |
1899 | Romesh Chunder Dutt |
1900 | N. G. Chandavarkar |
1901 | Dinshaw Edulji Wacha |
1902 | Surendranath Banerjee |
1903 | Lalmohan Ghosh |
1904 | Henry John Stedman Cotton |
1905 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
1906 | Dadabhai Naoroji |
1907-08 | Rashbihari Ghosh |
1909 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
1910 | William Wedderburn |
1911 | Bishan Narayan Dar |
1912 | Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar |
1913 | Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur |
1914 | Bhupendra Nath Bose |
1915 | Satyendra Prasanno Sinha |
1916 | Ambica Charan Mazumdar |
1917 | Annie Besant |
1918 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
1918 | Syed Hasan Imam |
1919 | Motilal Nehru |
1920 | Lala Lajpat Rai |
1920 | C. Vijayaraghavachariar |
1921 | Hakim Ajmal Khan |
1922 | Chittaranjan Das |
1923 | Mohammad Ali Jouhar |
1923 | Abul Kalam Azad |
1924 | Mahatma Gandhi |
1925 | Sarojini Naidu |
1926 | S. Srinivasa Iyengar |
1927 | Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari |
1928 | Motilal Nehru |
1929-30, 1936-37 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1931 | Vallabhbhai Patel |
1932 | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
1933 | Nellie Sengupta |
1934-35, 1939 (March) | Rajendra Prasad |
1938-39 | Subhas Chandra Bose |
1940-46 | Abul Kalam Azad |
1946-47 | J.B. Kripalani |
List of Congress Presidents after 1947 | |
1948-49 | Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya |
1950 | Purushottam Das Tandon |
1951-54 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1955-59 | U. N. Dhebar |
1959 | Indira Gandhi |
1960-63 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
1964-67 | K. Kamaraj |
1968-69 | S. Nijalingappa |
1970-71 | Jagjivan Ram |
1972-74 | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
1975-78 | Devakanta Barua |
1978-83 | Indira Gandhi |
1985-91 | Rajiv Gandhi |
1992-94 | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
1996-98 | Sitaram Kesri |
1998-2017 | Sonia Gandhi |
2017-19 | Rahul Gandhi |
2019-2022 | Sonia Gandhi |
2022-Present | Mallikarjun Kharge |
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