List of national presidents of the Indian National Congress

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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]

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 presidency Leader Portrait Place of conference Reference(s)[14]
1 December 1885 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee An image of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. Bombay [15]
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2 December 1886 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Dadabhai Naoroji. Calcutta [18]
3 December 1887 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Badruddin Tyabji. Madras [19]
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4 December 1888 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of George Yule. Allahabad [21]
5 December 1889 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of William Wedderburn. Bombay [22]
6 December 1890 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Pherozesha Mehta. Calcutta [22]
7 December 1891 Script error: No such module "Sort". File:Hon'ble Mr P Ananda Charlu.jpg Nagpur [23]
8 December 1892 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee An image of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. Allahabad [15]
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9 December 1893 Dadabhai Naoroji An image of Dadabhai Naoroji. Lahore [18]
10 December 1894 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Alfred Webb. Madras [22]
11 December 1895 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Surendranath Banerjee. Poona [22]
12 December 1896 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Rahimtulla M. Sayani. Calcutta [22]
13 December 1897 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of C Sankaran Nair. Amaravati [24]
14 December 1898 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Anandamohan Bose. Madras [24]
15 December 1899 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Romesh Chunder Dutt. Lucknow [24]
16 December 1900 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of N. G. Chandavarkar. Lahore [24]

The pre-independence era (1901–1947)

List of presidents during 1901–1947
No. Year(s) of presidency Name Portrait Place of conference Reference(s)[14]
17 December 1901 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. Calcutta [25]
18 December 1902 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Surendranath Banerjee. Ahmedabad [22]
19 December 1903 Script error: No such module "Sort". Madras [23]
20 December 1904 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Henry Cotton. Bombay [26]
21 December 1905 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Benares [23]
22 December 1906 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Dadabhai Naoroji. Calcutta [18]
23 December 1907 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Rashbihari Ghosh. Surat [23]
24 December 1908 Madras [23]
25 December 1909 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Lahore [23]
26 December 1910 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of William Wedderburn. Allahabad [22]
27 December 1911 Script error: No such module "Sort". Calcutta [23]
28 December 1912 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar. Bankipore [23]
29 December 1913 Script error: No such module "Sort". Karachi [23]
30 April 1914 Script error: No such module "Sort". File:Bhupendranath Bose.jpg Madras [23]
31 December 1915 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Satyendra Prasanno Sinha. Bombay [24]
32 December 1916 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Ambica Charan Mazumdar. Lucknow [24]
33 December 1917 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Annie Besant. Calcutta [24]
34 August 1918 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Syed Hasan Imam. Bombay (special session) [24]
35 December 1918 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Delhi [23]
36 December 1919 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Motilal Nehru. Amritsar [24]
37 1920 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Lala Lajpat Rai. Calcutta (Special Session) [24]
38 December 1920 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of C. Vijayaraghavachariar. Nagpur [27]
39 December 1921 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Hakim Ajmal Khan. Ahmedabad [27]
40 December 1922 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Chittaranjan Das. Gaya [27]
41 1923 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Mohammad Ali Jouhar. Kakinada [27]
42 September 1923 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Abul Kalam Azad. Delhi (Special Session) [27]
43 December 1924 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Mahatma Gandhi. Belgaum [28]
44 April 1925 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Sarojini Naidu. Kanpur [27]
45 December 1926 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of S. Srinivasa Iyengar. Guwahati [27]
46 December 1927 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari. Madras [27]
47 1928 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Motilal Nehru. Calcutta [24]
48 1929 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Jawaharlal Nehru. Lahore [27]
49 1930 Karachi [27]
50 1931 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Vallabhbhai Patel. Karachi [27]
51 1932 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Delhi [23]
52 1933 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Nellie Sengupta. Calcutta [29]
53 1934 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Rajendra Prasad. Bombay [30]
54 1935 Lucknow [30]
55 1936 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Jawaharlal Nehru. Lucknow [27]
56 1937 Faizpur [27]
57 1938 Script error: No such module "Sort". Subhas Chandra Bose Haripura [28]
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58 1939 Tewar, Madhya Pradesh
(then Tripuri) 		[28]
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59 1939 (March) Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Rajendra Prasad. Tewar, Madhya Pradesh
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60 1940–46

Duration of World war 2

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61 1946 (July–Sept) Jawaharlal Nehru File:Jawaharlal Nehru, 1947.jpg [32]
62 1946 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of J. B. Kripalani. Meerut [33]
63 1947

The post-independence era (1948–present)

List of presidents since independence
No. Year(s) of Presidency Name Portrait Place of Conference Reference(s)[14]
64 1948 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Pattabhi Sitaraimayya. Jaipur [33]
65 1949 Jaipur
66 1950 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Purushottam Das Tandon. Nashik [33]
67 1951 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Jawaharlal Nehru. Delhi [34]
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68 1952 Delhi
69 1953 Hyderabad [34]
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70 1954 Kalyani [34]
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71 1955 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of U. N. Dhebar. Avadi [23]
72 1956 Amritsar [23]
73 1957 Indore [23]
74 1958 Gauhati [23]
75 1959 Nagpur [23]
76 1959 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Indira Gandhi. Delhi (special session) [35]
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73 1960 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. Bengaluru [33]
74 1961 Bhavnagar [33]
75 1962 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Damodaram Sanjivayya. Patna [33]
75 1962–1963 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. Patna [33]
76 1964 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of K. Kamaraj. Bhubaneswar [33]
77 1965 Durgapur [33]
78 1966–1967 Jaipur [33]
79 1968 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of S. Nijalingappa. Hyderabad [33]
80 1969 Faridabad [33]
81 1970–1971 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Jagjivan Ram. Mumbai [33]
82 1972–74 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Shankar Dayal Sharma. Kolkata [33]
83 1975–77 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Devakanta Barua. Chandigarh [33]
84 1977–78 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Chandigarh [37]
85 1978–83 Indira Gandhi An image of Indira Gandhi. New Delhi [35]
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85 1983 Kolkata [35]
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86 1985–1991 Script error: No such module "Sort". An image of Rajiv Gandhi. Mumbai [38]
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87 1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped).jpg Tirupati [23]
88 1993 Surajkund [23]
89 1994 Delhi [23]
90 1996–1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". File:Sita Ram Kesari(cropped).jpg Kolkata [23]
91 1998–2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". File:Sonia Gandhi and Vladimir Putin in March 2010 04.jpg New Delhi [41]
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92 2001–2004 Bengaluru [41]
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93 2004–2006 New Delhi [41]
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94 2006–2010 Hyderabad [41]
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95 2010–2017 New Delhi [41]
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96 2017–2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". File:Rahul Gandhi in Shillong (cropped).jpg New Delhi [43]
97 2019–2022 Sonia Gandhi An image of Sonia Gandhi. Jaipur [41]
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98 2022–Incumbent Mallikarjun Kharge File:Mallikarjun Kharge.jpg New Delhi [44]

See also

References

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