He was one of the earliest Indian leaders to hold the view that the poverty of Indian people was the result of the exploitation of India by British.
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He also elected to British parliament and promoted the cause of India in that body. He became the president of the Congress thrice. During his stay in Britain, he had formed an association to win over the British leaders and the public in support of the demands of Indian people. He was one of the foremost leaders of the Congress for over 20 years. The second session of the Congress was presided over by Dadabai Naoroji. In the course of time it did became the representative organisation of the people of the country. Must Read: National Movement of India: 1920 to 1940 The first session of the Congress had been described as Indian First National Assembly and the nucleus of future parliament for our country. The delegates attending this and a later session where now elected by various conferences which where held at local levels. Surendranath Banerjee and other leaders of the Indian Association joined the Congress now. The second session, attended by about 450 delegates was held in Calcutta in 1886. The early phase of Indian National CongressĪfter the first session in Bombay, the Indian National Congress met every year in the month of December, usually at a different place each time. The Congress passed nine resolutions which demanded changes in British policies and reforms in administration.
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The Objective of the Congress, as stated by him where to bring together leaders to different parts of the country to remove the all possible prejudice of race, religion and region, and to decide important problems facing the country and to decide on the activities that the Indian leaders should take up. And we lead to the good of inconceivable magnitude for the countrymen.” The first President of the INC was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. It is the nucleus of the future parliament of our country. The day on which it open, namely, 18th December 1885, will form a red-letter day in the annals of the national progress of the native races. Barely a week after the session ended, a Calcutta newspaper, The Indian Mirror wrote, “The First National Congress at Bombay forms an important chapter in the history of British rule in India. The Significance of the formation of the first national political organisation in India was immediately realised. He had convened a National Conference around the same time at Calcutta. Read Also: Indian Renaissance The Socio-Cultural Awakening An important leader who was absent was Surendranath Banerjee. Some of the Important leaders who attended the first session of Congress which was held at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, were Dadabhai Naoroji, Kashinath Trimbak Telang, Pherozeshah Mehta, S Subramania Iyer, P Ananda Charlu, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, G Subramania Iyer, M Viraraghavachari, N G Chadavarkar, Rahimtullah M Sayani and Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. He established contact with some of the most important Indian Leaders all over the country and received their cooperation in forming the Congress. The Indian National Congress was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay from 28 to 30 December 1885.Īllan Octavian Hume, a retired British Indian Civil Servant played a leading role in the formation of the Congress.