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The Post Liberalization Era (1990-2018)

Session Place Date President
84th AICC Plenary Session New Delhi Mar. 18-18, 2018 Shri Rahul Gandhi
Chintan Shivir Jaipur Jan. 18-19, 2013 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
83rd Plenary Session New Delhi Jan. 01-01, 2010 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
82nd Session Hyderabad Jan. 01-01, 2006 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
Special Session Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi Aug. 21-21, 2004 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
Chintan Shivir Shimla (H.P.) Shimla (H.P.) Jul. 09-11, 2003 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
81st Session Bangalore Feb. 14-16, 2001 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
Special Session New Delhi Apr. 06-06, 1998 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
Chintan Shivir Panchmarhi (M.P.) Sep. 04-09, 1998 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
Special session Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi Dec. 08-08, 1998 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
80th Session Calcutta Aug. 08-10, 1997 Sitaram Kesri
Special Session Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi May. 25-25, 1995 Smt. Sonia Gandhi
Special Session New Delhi Jun. 10-11, 1994 P.V. Narasimha Rao
Special Session Surajkund (Haryana) Mar. 27-28, 1993 P.V. Narasimha Rao
79th Session Tirupati (A.P.) Apr. 14-16, 1992 P.V. Narasimha Rao

The Post Independence Era (1947-1990)

Session Place Date President
78th (Centenary) Session Bombay Dec. 28-28, 1985 Rajiv Gandhi
77th Session Calcutta Dec. 29-30, 1983 Indira Gandhi
76th Session New Delhi Jan. 01-02, 1978 Indira Gandhi
75th Session Chandigarh Dec. 31-01, 1976 D.K. Barooah
74th Session Calcutta Dec. 28-29, 1972 Shankar Dayal Sharma
73rd Session Bombay Dec. 28-29, 1969 Jagjivan Ram
72nd Session Faridabad Apr. 26-28, 1969 S. Nijalingappa
71st Session Hyderabad Jan. 10-11, 1968 S. Nijalingappa
70th Session Jaipur Jul. 16-18, 1966 Shri K. Kamaraj
69th Session Durgapur Apr. 14-16, 1965 Shri K. Kamaraj
68th Session Bhubaneshwar Sep. 17-19, 1964 Shri K. Kamaraj
67th Session Patna Aug. 13-15, 1962 N. Sanjiva Reddy
66th Session Bhavnagar Jan. 06-07, 1961 N. Sanjiva Reddy
65th Session Bangalore Jan. 16-15, 1960 N. Sanjiva Reddy
64th Session Nagpur Jun. 10-12, 1959 Shri U. N. Dhebar
63rd Session Gauhati Jul. 15-17, 1958 Shri U. N. Dhebar
62nd Session Indore May. 14-15, 2018 Shri U. N. Dhebar
61st Session Amritsar Aug. 11-13, 1956 Shri U. N. Dhebar
60th Session Avadi, Madras Sep. 07-09, 1955 Shri U. N. Dhebar
59th Session Kalyani Jul. 10-12, 1954 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
58th Session Hyderabad May. 08-10, 1953 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
57th Session New Delhi Mar. 10-12, 1951 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
56th Session Nasik Sep. 21-22, 1950 Purushottam Das Tandon
55th Session Jaipur Dec. 18-18, 1948 B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya

The Pre Independence Era (1900-1947)

Session Place Date President
54th Session Meerut Nov. 23-24, 1946 J.B. Kripalani
53rd Session Ramgarh Mar. 19-20, 1940 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
52nd Session Tripura Mar. 10-12, 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose
51st Session Haripura Feb. 19-21, 1938 Subhash Chandra Bose
50th Session Faizpur Jul. 12-14, 1937 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
49th Session Lucknow Jun. 18-20, 1936 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
48th Session Bombay Oct. 24-28, 1934 Dr. Rajendra Prasad
47th Session Calcutta Sep. 12-14, 1933 Mrs. Nellie Sengupta
45th Session Karachi Mar. 21-31, 1931 Vallabbhai J. Patel
44th Session Lahore Apr. 16-18, 1929 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
43rd Session Calcutta Dec. 29-01, 1929 Motilal Nehru
42nd Session Madras Dec. 26-28, 1927 M.A. Ansari
41st Session Gawahati Dec. 26-28, 1926 S. Srinivasa Iyengar
40th Session Cawnpore Apr. 15-17, 1925 Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
39th Session Belgaum Dec. 26-27, 1924 M.K. Gandhi
Special Session Delhi Sep. 04-08, 1923 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
37th Session Gaya Dec. 26-31, 1922 Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
36th Session Ahmedabad Dec. 27-28, 1921 Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das)
35th Session Nagpur Dec. 26-30, 1920 C. Vijayaraghavachariar
34th Session Amritsar Dec. 26-30, 1919 Motilal Nehru
(Special Session) Bombay Aug. 29-01, 1918 Syed Hasan Imam
33rd Session Delhi Dec. 26-30, 1918 Madan Mohan Malaviya
32nd Session Calcutta Dec. 26-29, 1917 Annie Besant
31st Session Lucknow Dec. 26-30, 1916 Ambica Charan Mazumdar
30th Session Bombay Dec. 27-29, 1915 Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
29th Session Madras Apr. 14-15, 1914 Bhupendra Nath Bose
28th Session Karachi Dec. 26-28, 1913 Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur
27th Session Bankipore Dec. 26-28, 1912 Shri Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar
26th Session Calcutta Dec. 26-28, 1911 Bishan Narayan Dar
25th Session Allahabad Dec. 26-29, 1910 Sir William Wedderburn
24th Session Lahore Dec. 27-29, 1909 Madan Mohan Malaviya
23rd Session Madras Dec. 28-30, 1908 Rash Behari Ghosh
23rd Session (Suspended) Surat Dec. 26-27, 1907 Rash Behari Ghosh
22nd Session Calcutta Dec. 26-29, 1906 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
21st Session Banaras Dec. 27-30, 1905 Gopal Krishna Gokhale
20th Session Bombay Dec. 26-28, 1903 Sir Henry Cotton
19th Session Madras Dec. 28-30, 1903 Lal Mohan Ghosh
18th Session Ahmedabad Dec. 28-30, 1902 Surendranath Banerjee
17th Session Calcutta Dec. 26-28, 1901 Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha

The Founding Years (1885-1900)

Session Place Date President
16th Session Lahore Dec. 27-29, 1900 N.G. Chandavarkar
15th Session Lucknow Dec. 27-29, 1899 Romesh Chunder Dutt
14th Session Madras Dec. 29-31, 1898 Ananda Mohan Bose
13th Session Amraoti Dec. 27-29, 1897 C. Sankaran Nair
12th Session Calcutta Dec. 28-31, 1896 Rahimatullah M. Sayani
11th Session Pune Dec. 27-30, 1895 Surendranath Banerjee
10th Session Madras Dec. 26-29, 1894 Alfred Webb
9th Session Lahore Dec. 27-30, 1893 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
8th Session Allahabad Dec. 28-30, 1892 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
7th Session Nagpur Dec. 28-30, 1891 P. Ananda Charlu
6th Session Calcutta Dec. 26-30, 1890 Pherozeshah Mehta
5th Session Bombay Dec. 26-28, 1889 Sir William Wedderburn
4th Session Allahabad Dec. 26-29, 1888 George Yule
3rd Session Madras Dec. 27-30, 1887 Badruddin Tyabji
2nd Session Calcutta Dec. 27-30, 1886 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
1st Session Bombay Dec. 28-30, 1885 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee