List of national presidents of the Indian National Congress

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National President of the Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress hand logo.svg
Mallikarjun Kharge.jpg
since 26 October 2022 (2022-10-26)
Residence 24 Akbar Road, New Delhi
AppointerCommittee consisting of members of the Indian National Congress from the National and State Committees
Term length no term limit
Constituting instrumentConstitution of the Indian National Congress [1]
Precursor Sonia Gandhi
Formation28 December 1885 (1885-12-28)
First holder Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee (1885–1886)
Website Official website

The national president of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. [1] Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members drawn from the Pradesh Congress Committees and members of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). [2] In the event of any emergency because of any cause such as the death or resignation of the president elected as above, the most senior general secretary discharges the routine functions of the president until the Working Committee appoints a provisional president pending the election of a regular president by the AICC. [2] The president of the party has effectively been the party's national leader, head of the party's organisation, head of the Working Committee, the chief spokesman, and all chief Congress committees. [3]

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After the party's foundation in December 1885, Womesh Chandra Banerjee became its first president. From 1885 to 1933, the presidency had a term of one year only. From 1933 onwards, there was no such fixed term for the president. [4] During Jawaharlal Nehru's premiership, he rarely held the Presidency of INC, even though he was always head of the Parliamentary Party. Despite being a party with a structure, Congress under Indira Gandhi did not hold any organisational elections after 1978. [5] In 1978, Gandhi split from the INC and formed a new opposition party, popularly called Congress (I), which the national election commission declared to be the real Indian National Congress for the 1980 general election. [6] [7] [8] Gandhi institutionalised the practice of having the same person as the Congress president and the prime minister of India after the formation of Congress (I). [9] Her successors Rajiv Gandhi and P. V. Narasimha Rao also continued that practice. Nonetheless, in 2004, when the Congress was voted back into power, Manmohan Singh became the first and only prime minister not to be the president of the party since establishment of the practice of the president holding both positions. [10]

A total of 61 people have served as the president of the Indian National Congress since its formation. [11] Sonia Gandhi is the longest serving president of the party, having held the office for over twenty years from 1998 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2022. The latest election of president was held on 17 October 2022, [12] in which Mallikarjun Kharge became the new president defeating Shashi Tharoor in the 2022 Indian National Congress presidential election. [13]

List of party presidents during the founding years (1885–1900)

List of presidents during 1885–1900
No.Year(s) of presidencyLeaderPortraitPlace of conferenceReference(s) [14]
1December 1885 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee WCBonnerjee.jpg Bombay [15]
[16]
[17]
2December 1886 Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji.jpg Calcutta [18]
3December 1887 Badruddin Tyabji BadruddinTyabji.jpg Madras [19]
[20]
4December 1888 George Yule George Yule.jpg Allahabad [21]
5December 1889 William Wedderburn WilliamWedderburn.jpg Bombay [22]
6December 1890 Pherozeshah Mehta Pherozeshah Mehta 1996 stamp of India.jpg Calcutta [22]
7December 1891 Panapakkam Anandacharlu Hon'ble Mr P Ananda Charlu.jpg Nagpur [23]
8December 1892 Womesh Chandra Banerjee WCBonnerjee.jpg Allahabad [15]
[16]
[17]
9December 1893 Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji.jpg Lahore [18]
10December 1894 Alfred Webb AlfredWebb.jpg Madras [22]
11December 1895 Surendranath Banerjee Surendranath Banerjee.jpg Poona [22]
12December 1896 Rahimtulla M. Sayani RMSayani.jpg Calcutta [22]
13December 1897 C. Sankaran Nair SirChetturSankaranNair.jpg Amaravati [24]
14December 1898 Anandamohan Bose AnandaMohanBose.JPG Madras [24]
15December 1899 Romesh Chunder Dutt Romesh Chunder Dutt.jpg Lucknow [24]
16December 1900 N. G. Chandavarkar N. G. Chandavarkar cyclopedia.png Lahore [24]

The pre-independence era (1901–1947)

List of presidents during 1901–1947
No.Year(s) of presidencyNamePortraitPlace of conferenceReference(s) [14]
17December 1901 Dinshaw Edulji Wacha DinshawWacha.jpg Calcutta [25]
18December 1902 Surendranath Banerjee Surendranath Banerjee.jpg Ahmedabad [22]
19December 1903 Lalmohan Ghosh Madras [23]
20December 1904 Henry John Stedman Cotton Henry Cotton.jpg Bombay [26]
21December 1905 Gopal Krishna Gokhale Gopal krishan gokhale.jpg Benares [23]
22December 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji.jpg Calcutta [18]
23December 1907 Rashbihari Ghosh Rash Bihari Ghosh.jpg Surat [23]
24December 1908 Madras [23]
25December 1909 Madan Mohan Malaviya Madan Mohan Malaviya 1961 stamp of India.jpg Lahore [23]
26December 1910 William Wedderburn WilliamWedderburn.jpg Allahabad [22]
27December 1911 Bishan Narayan Dar Calcutta [23]
28December 1912 Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar R N Mudholkar.jpg Bankipore [23]
29December 1913 Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur Karachi [23]
30April 1914 Bhupendra Nath Bose Bhupendranath Bose.jpg Madras [23]
31December 1915 Satyendra Prasanno Sinha Lord Sina.jpg Bombay [24]
32December 1916 Ambica Charan Mazumdar 1916muzumdar.jpg Lucknow [24]
33December 1917 Annie Besant Annie Besant.png Calcutta [24]
34August 1918 Syed Hasan Imam Syed Hasan Imam.jpg Bombay (special session) [24]
35December 1918 Madan Mohan Malaviya Madan Mohan Malaviya 1961 stamp of India.jpg Delhi [23]
36December 1919 Motilal Nehru MotilalNehru4.jpg Amritsar [24]
371920 Lala Lajpat Rai Lala lajpat Rai.jpg Calcutta (Special Session) [24]
38December 1920 C. Vijayaraghavachariar C Vijayaraghavachariar 1998 stamp of India.jpg Nagpur [27]
39December 1921 Hakim Ajmal Khan 1921ajmalkhan.jpg Ahmedabad [27]
40December 1922 Chittaranjan Das Chittaranjan Das.JPG Gaya [27]
411923 Mohammad Ali Jauhar Mohammad Ali Jauhar 1978 stamp of India.jpg Kakinada [27]
42September 1923 Abul Kalam Azad Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.jpg Delhi (Special Session) [27]
43December 1924 Mahatma Gandhi MKGandhi.jpg Belgaum [28]
44April 1925 Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu 1964 stamp of India.jpg Kanpur [27]
45December 1926 S. Srinivasa Iyengar S. Srinivasa Iyengar.jpg Guwahati [27]
46December 1927 Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari 1980 stamp of India.jpg Madras [27]
471928 Motilal Nehru MotilalNehru4.jpg Calcutta [24]
481929 Jawaharlal Nehru Jnehru.jpg Lahore [27]
491930 Karachi [27]
501931 Vallabhbhai Patel Sardar patel (cropped).jpg Karachi [27]
511932 Madan Mohan Malaviya Madan Mohan Malaviya 1961 stamp of India.jpg Delhi [23]
521933 Nellie Sengupta Nellie and Jatindra Mohan Sengupta 1985 stamp of India.jpg Calcutta [29]
531934 Rajendra Prasad Rajendra Prasad (Indian President), signed image for Walter Nash (NZ Prime Minister), 1958 (16017609534).jpg Bombay [30]
541935 Lucknow [30]
551936 Jawaharlal Nehru Jnehru.jpg Lucknow [27]
561937 Faizpur [27]
571938 Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose NRB.jpg Haripura [28]
[31]
581939 Tewar, Madhya Pradesh
(then Tripuri)		 [28]
[31]
591939 (March) Rajendra Prasad Rajendra Prasad (Indian President), signed image for Walter Nash (NZ Prime Minister), 1958 (16017609534).jpg Tewar, Madhya Pradesh
(then Tripuri)		 [30]
601940–46

Duration of World war 2

 Abul Kalam Azad Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.jpg Ramgarh [27]
611946 (July–Sept) Jawaharlal Nehru Jnehru.jpg [32]
621946 J. B. Kripalani Acharya Kripalani 1989 stamp of India.jpg Meerut [33]
631947

The post-independence era (1948–present)

List of presidents since independence
No.Year(s) of PresidencyNamePortraitPlace of ConferenceReference(s) [14]
641948 Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya 1997 stamp of India.jpg Jaipur [33]
651949 Jaipur
661950 Purushottam Das Tandon Purushottam Das Tandon 1982 stamp of India.jpg Nashik [33]
671951 Jawaharlal Nehru Jnehru.jpg Delhi [34]
[31]
681952 Delhi
691953 Hyderabad [34]
[31]
701954 Kalyani [34]
[31]
711955 U. N. Dhebar U. N. Dhebar.png Avadi [23]
721956 Amritsar [23]
731957 Indore [23]
741958 Gauhati [23]
751959 Nagpur [23]
761959 Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi in 1967.jpg Delhi (special session) [35]
[36]
731960 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy NeelamSanjeevaReddy.jpg Bengaluru [33]
741961 Bhavnagar [33]
751962 Damodaram Sanjivayya Damodaram Sanjivayya 2008 stamp of India.jpg Patna [33]
751962–1963 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy NeelamSanjeevaReddy.jpg Patna [33]
761964 K. Kamaraj K Kamaraj 1976 stamp of India.jpg Bhubaneswar [33]
771965 Durgapur [33]
781966–1967 Jaipur [33]
791968 S. Nijalingappa Snijalingappa.jpg Hyderabad [33]
801969 Faridabad [33]
811970–1971 Jagjivan Ram Jagjivan Ram 1991 stamp of India.jpg Mumbai [33]
821972–74 Shankar Dayal Sharma Shankar Dayal Sharma 36.jpg Kolkata [33]
831975–77 Devakanta Barua Dev Kant Baruah.jpg Chandigarh [33]
841977–78 Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Kasu Brahmananda Reddy.jpg Chandigarh [37]
851978–83 Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi in 1967.jpg New Delhi [35]
[36]
851983 Kolkata [35]
[36]
861985–1991 Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi (1987).jpg Mumbai [38]
[39]
[40]
871992 P. V. Narasimha Rao Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped).jpg Tirupati [23]
881993 Surajkund [23]
891994 Delhi [23]
901996–1998 Sitaram Kesri Sita Ram Kesari(cropped).jpg Kolkata [23]
911998–2001 Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi and Vladimir Putin in March 2010 04.jpg New Delhi [41]
[42]
922001–2004 Bengaluru [41]
[42]
932004–2006 New Delhi [41]
[42]
942006–2010 Hyderabad [41]
[42]
952010–2017 New Delhi [41]
[42]
962017–2019 Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi in Shillong (cropped).jpg New Delhi [43]
972019–2022 Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi and Vladimir Putin in March 2010 04.jpg Jaipur [41]
[42]
98 2022–Incumbent Mallikarjun Kharge Mallikarjun Kharge.jpg New Delhi [44]

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