Who is the leader of Indian National Congress?
Who played a leading role in the founding of Indian National Congress?
On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected president.
Who were the popular leaders of the radical group of the Indian National Congress?
Early Nationalists
| Indian National Congress | |
|---|---|
| Leader | W.C. Banerjee Rash Behari Ghosh Moderates Surendranath Banerjee R. C. Dutt Dadabhai Naoroji Gopal Krishna Gokhale Pherozeshah Mehta Justice M.G.Ranade P. R. Naidu S. Subramanian Iyer Ananda Charlu Madan Mohan Malaviya A.O. Hume William Wedderburn |
| Founder | A.O. Hume |
Who is the current Congress president?
Who founded India?
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa.
Who is the first woman president of Indian National Congress?
List of presidents of the Indian National Congress
| President of the Indian National Congress | |
|---|---|
| Incumbent Sonia Gandhi since 10 August 2019 | |
| Indian National Congress | |
| Type | Political Party Office |
| Residence | 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi-110001 |
What were the four aims of the Congress?
(i) To promote friendly relations between nationalist political workers from different parts of the country. (ii) To develop and consolidate the feelings of national unity irrespective of caste, religion or province. (iii) To formulate popular demands and present them before the Government.
Who are the extremist leaders?
Some of the extremist leaders were Lala Lajpat Rai, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurobindo Ghosem Rajnarayan Bose and Ashwini Kumar Dutt.
Who called radicals?
Those who remained intransigent in believing that the French Revolution needed to be completed through a republican regime based on parliamentary democracy and universal suffrage therefore tended to call themselves “Radicals” – a term meaning ‘Purists’.
Who were moderates and extremists?
Background. Moderates believed in the policy of settlement of minor issues with the government by deliberations. But the extremists believed in agitation, strikes, and boycotts. Nationalists led by Lokmanya Tilak agitated against the Moderates.