Congress President List: The Indian National Congress (INC) was established by Allan Octavian Hume on December 28, 1885. The first president of the Congress party was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee in 1885. The presidency of the INC is determined by an electoral college comprising members from the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) and the All India Congress Committee (AICC). Smt. Sonia Gandhi served as the president of the Congress Party for the longest duration, from 1998 to 2017 and again from 2017 to 2022.
As of now, Mallikarjun Kharge is the newly appointed president of the AICC and the Congress party. He won the recent Congress president election with 7,897 votes out of 9,385 counted votes, defeating Shashi Tharoor, who received only 1,072 votes. Kharge is the first non-Gandhi president in 24 years and the sixth in the history of the Congress party. Below is the complete list of Congress presidents from 1885 to 2025.
Congress President List from 1885 to 1900
The following table lists the presidents of the Congress party from 1885 to 1900 along with the locations of their conferences:
| Name of President | Year | Place of Conference |
|---|---|---|
| Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee | 1885 | Bombay |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1886 | Calcutta |
| Badruddin Tyabji | 1887 | Madras |
| George Yule | 1888 | Allahabad |
| William Wedderburn | 1889 | Bombay |
| Pherozeshah Mehta | 1890 | Calcutta |
| Panapakkam Anandacharlu | 1891 | Nagpur |
| Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee | 1892 | Allahabad |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1893 | Lahore |
| Alfred Webb | 1894 | Madras |
| Surendranath Banerjee | 1895 | Poona |
| Rahimtulla M. Sayani | 1896 | Calcutta |
| C. Sankaran Nair | 1897 | Amaravati |
| Anandamohan Bose | 1898 | Madras |
| Romesh Chunder Dutt | 1899 | Lucknow |
| N. G. Chandavarkar | 1900 | Lahore |
List of Congress Presidents From 1948 to 2025
Mallikarjun Kharge currently holds the position of president of the Indian Congress Committee (ICC). Below is the list of Congress presidents since India's independence:
| Name of President | Year of Presidency | Place of Conference |
|---|---|---|
| Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayy | 1948–1949 | Jaipur |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | 1950 | Nasik |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1951–1952 | Delhi |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1953 | Hyderabad |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1954 | Kalyani |
| U. N. Dhebar | 1955 | Avadi |
| U. N. Dhebar | 1956 | Amritsar |
| U. N. Dhebar | 1957 | Indore |
| U. N. Dhebar | 1958 | Gauhati |
| U. N. Dhebar | 1959 | Nagpur |
| Indira Gandhi | 1959 | Delhi (special session) |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 1960 | Bangalore |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 1961 | Bhavnagar |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 1962–1963 | Patna |
| K. Kamaraj | 1964 | Bhubaneswar |
| K. Kamaraj | 1965 | Durgapur |
| K. Kamaraj | 1966–1967 | Jaipur |
| S. Nijalingappa | 1968 | Hyderabad |
| S. Nijalingappa | 1969 | Faridabad |
| Jagjivan Ram | 1970–1971 | Bombay |
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | 1972–74 | Calcutta |
| Devakanta Barua | 1975–77 | Chandigarh |
| Kasu Brahmananda Reddy | 1977–78 | Chandigarh |
| Indira Gandhi | 1978–83 | New Delhi |
| Indira Gandhi | 1983 | Calcutta |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1985–1991 | Bombay |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 1992 | Tirupati |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 1993 | Surajkund |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 1994 | Delhi |
| Sitaram Kesri | 1996–1998 | Calcutta |
| Sonia Gandhi | 1998–2001 | New Delhi |
| Sonia Gandhi | 2001–2004 | Bangalore |
| Sonia Gandhi | 2004–2006 | New Delhi |
| Sonia Gandhi | 2006–2010 | Hyderabad |
| Sonia Gandhi | 2010–2017 | New Delhi |
| Rahul Gandhi | 2017–2019 | New Delhi |
| Sonia Gandhi | 2019–2022 | Jaipur |
| Mallikarjun Kharge | 2022-Incumbent | New Delhi |
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