Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee elected as The first president of the Indian National Congress.

The Indian National Congress was established on 28 December 1885.

Seventy-two delegates met at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay (now Mumbai).

This meeting was the first session of the Indian National Congress.

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was elected the first President of the Indian National Congress.

Prominent early Congress leaders included Dadabhai Naoroji, Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozeshah Mehta, W. C. Bonnerjee, S. Ramaswami Mudaliar, S. Subramania Iyer, and Romesh Chunder Dutt.

Surendranath Banerjee, though a leading nationalist, did not attend the inaugural session.

Allan Octavian Hume, a former British civil servant, was a founding member and principal organizer of the INC, working closely with Indian leaders.
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