{"id":5272,"date":"2022-12-30T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:48:54","slug":"congress-celebrates-its-138th-foundation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/congress-celebrates-its-138th-foundation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress celebrates its 138th foundation day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>How the Congress was founded?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The English bureaucrat <strong>Allan Octavian Hume or AO Hume is credited as the founder of the organisation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On December 28, 1885, 72 social reformers, journalists and lawyers congregated for the <strong>first session of the INC at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At that point, the aim of this group was not to demand independence from the ongoing colonial rule but to influence the policies of the British government in favour of Indians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Transformation towards the demand for independence<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the next few years, the party\u2019s work continued, to shift the colonial administrators\u2019 attitudes and policies on the rights and powers allowed to Indians.<\/li>\n<li>The party largely consisted of educated, upper-class people who were likely to have studied abroad. But with time, this <strong>grouping became more diverse, as the organisation began setting up provincial organisations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>At its Eleventh Session in 1895<\/strong>, there was an increase in the number of delegates from 1,163 the previous year to 1,584. <strong>President Surendranath Banerjea<\/strong> congratulated the Congress for bringing together \u201cthe scattered element of a vast and diversified population.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Splits and reconvening<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In Surat in 1906,<\/strong> the divisions between the \u2018moderates\u2019 led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Surendranath Banerjea, and the \u2018extremists\u2019 led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak came to the fore and there was a split. While Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai wanted the Congress to boycott the visit of the Prince of Wales in protest against the Bengal Partition a year prior, the moderates opposed any such move.<\/li>\n<li>But by 1915, the <strong>Bombay session saw these two groups coming together again as one.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Q1) Who was the first president of Congress?<\/p>\n<p>Wyomesh Chandra Banerjee became the first President of Congress after its foundation in December 1885.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/on-congress-foundation-day-a-brief-history-of-the-party-8348538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>On Congress Foundation Day, a brief history of the INC<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INC was founded on 28 December 1885 to influence the policies of the British government in favour of Indians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}