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49 solved Indian National Congress MCQs with verified answers and explanations: founded 28 December 1885 at Bombay, A. O. Hume, W. C. Bonnerjee, Surat Split 1907, Lahore Session 1929, Quit India 1942, Karachi Session 1931.
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A 49-item practice set on the Indian National Congress, converted from the Sir Adnan one-liner booklet in the monster-data 'CSS MPT PAST PAPERS' pack. The booklet prints 50 statement + answer items; 49 are published here in the standard MCQ format with verified answers and explanations, the distractors being authored under Anas's 2026-10-28 single-format decision (optionsSource 'authored'). One item was dropped, never rewritten: printed Q44, which asks who was called 'Father of the Indian Constitution' but 'belonged to Congress' — B. R. Ambedkar was not a Congress member (he led the Scheduled Castes Federation and later served as law minister as an independent), so the stem's premise is wrong as printed. Year 2026 is the booklet's 'NEW TREND 2025-26' label, NOT a claimed exam session. This set is labelled practice throughout, never as a past paper.
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Correct Answer: 28 December 1885
The Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 at its first session in Bombay.
Correct Answer: Bombay
The Congress was founded at Bombay (now Mumbai), where its first session met in December 1885.
Correct Answer: Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume, a retired British civil servant, founded the Indian National Congress in 1885.
Correct Answer: Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee presided over the Congress's first session at Bombay in 1885, making him its first president.
Correct Answer: Badruddin Tyabji
Badruddin Tyabji was the first Muslim president of the Congress, presiding over its Madras session in 1887.
Correct Answer: George Yule
George Yule, a Scottish merchant, was the first British president of the Congress, at Allahabad in 1888.
Correct Answer: Annie Besant
Annie Besant became the first woman president of the Congress at the Calcutta session in 1917.
Correct Answer: Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu, president at Kanpur in 1925, was the first Indian woman to preside over the Congress.
Correct Answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, elected president in 1923 at the age of 35, was the Congress's youngest president.
Correct Answer: Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee presided over the first Congress session at Bombay in December 1885.
Correct Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji, three-time Congress president, is known as the 'Grand Old Man of India'.
Correct Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji presented the Drain Theory, arguing that Britain was draining India's wealth, in his book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'.
Correct Answer: 1907
The Congress split into Moderates and Extremists at the Surat session of 1907.
Correct Answer: Rashbehari Ghosh
Rashbehari Ghosh (also spelt Rash Behari Ghosh) presided over the Surat session of 1907, at which the Congress split.
Correct Answer: Lord Dufferin
Lord Dufferin was viceroy at the Congress's founding in 1885 and was initially sympathetic to Hume's proposal for the organisation.
Correct Answer: 1906
The Congress adopted Swaraj (self-government) as its goal at the Calcutta session of 1906, presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji.
Correct Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji presided over the Calcutta session of 1906, at which the Swaraj resolution was adopted.
Correct Answer: Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917, Gandhi's first major campaign in India, established him as a national leader within the Congress.
Correct Answer: 1924 (Belgaum Session)
Mahatma Gandhi became Congress president in 1924, presiding over the Belgaum session.
Correct Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920 under the Congress, after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Khilafat issue.
Correct Answer: Lahore Session, 1929
The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, demanded Purna Swaraj (complete independence).
Correct Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru presided over the Lahore session of 1929, which passed the Purna Swaraj resolution.
Correct Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
On 31 December 1929, at the close of the Lahore session, Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the tricolour flag on the bank of the Ravi.
Correct Answer: Independence Day
The Congress observed 26 January 1930 as Independence Day, following the Lahore session's Purna Swaraj declaration.
Correct Answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was Congress president from 1940 to 1946, covering the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Correct Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi gave the 'Quit India' call in 1942, launching the movement that demanded an end to British rule.
Correct Answer: Bombay, 1942 (Gowalia Tank Maidan)
The Quit India Resolution was passed at Bombay in August 1942, at Gowalia Tank Maidan, where Gandhi gave his 'Do or Die' speech.
Correct Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Congress leader who integrated the princely states, is called the 'Iron Man of India'.
Correct Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Pashtun Congress leader of the North-West Frontier Province, was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'.
Correct Answer: Quit India Movement (1942)
The Quit India Movement, launched in August 1942, is also known as the August Movement.
Correct Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel presided over the Karachi session of 1931, which endorsed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
Correct Answer: Motilal Nehru
Motilal Nehru was Congress president in 1928, the year the Simon Commission arrived in India and was boycotted by the Congress.
Correct Answer: Motilal Nehru
The Nehru Report of 1928, the Congress's constitutional proposals answering the Simon Commission, was drafted by a committee chaired by Motilal Nehru.
Correct Answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was Congress president in 1946, when the Cabinet Mission Plan for India's transfer of power was presented.
Correct Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru became India's first prime minister on 15 August 1947.
Correct Answer: J. B. Kripalani (1946–1947)
J. B. Kripalani was Congress president from November 1946 into 1947, the last president before partition; Rajendra Prasad succeeded him in December 1947.
Correct Answer: 1939
The Congress provincial ministries resigned in late 1939, after the viceroy committed India to the Second World War without consulting Indian leaders.
Correct Answer: Due to India's forced participation in WWII
The ministries resigned in protest at India being dragged into the Second World War by the viceroy's declaration, without Indian consent.
Correct Answer: Ambika Charan Majumdar
Ambika Charan Majumdar presided over the Lucknow session of 1916, at which the Congress and the Muslim League concluded the Lucknow Pact.
Correct Answer: All India Muslim League
The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League on constitutional reform and separate electorates.
Correct Answer: Annie Besant
Annie Besant became Congress president in December 1917; she had launched her Home Rule League the previous year, in 1916.
Correct Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi gave the 'Do or Die' call in his Quit India speech at Bombay on 8 August 1942.
Correct Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was Congress president in 1930, the year of Gandhi's Dandi (Salt) March.
Correct Answer: 1931
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on 5 March 1931, ending the Civil Disobedience Movement and securing Gandhi's place at the Second Round Table Conference.
Correct Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi attended the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931 as the Congress's sole representative.
Correct Answer: Karachi Session 1931
The Karachi session of 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, endorsed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
Correct Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose was elected Congress president at Haripura in 1938, re-elected at Tripuri in 1939, and resigned the same year after differences with Gandhi.
Correct Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose
After resigning from the Congress presidency in 1939, Subhas Chandra Bose founded the Forward Bloc.
Correct Answer: 1947 (Mountbatten Plan)
The Congress accepted partition in June 1947 under the Mountbatten Plan, which provided for the division of British India into India and Pakistan.
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No. This is a topic practice set on the Indian National Congress from a Sir Adnan one-liner booklet in the monster-data CSS MPT pack. It is labelled practice in the title, slug and paperType, and must not be quoted as an official past paper.
49 of the booklet's 50 printed items are published. Printed Q44 was dropped because its premise is wrong: B. R. Ambedkar, 'Father of the Indian Constitution', was not a Congress member — he led the Scheduled Castes Federation and entered Nehru's cabinet as an independent. Per the 2026-10-28 precedent, wrong-as-printed items are dropped, never rewritten.
The source prints statement + answer only, with no (a)-(d) options. Under Anas's 2026-10-28 single-format decision, each item is published in the standard MCQ format with 3 authored plausible distractors; the questions and answers are the booklet's, and every answer was verified as the standard answer. optionsSource is recorded as 'authored' so authored options are never mistaken for the paper's.
The Congress from its founding on 28 December 1885 at Bombay (A. O. Hume, W. C. Bonnerjee, Badruddin Tyabji, George Yule) through the Surat Split of 1907, the Swaraj resolution of 1906, the Lahore Session of 1929, the Quit India Movement of 1942, the Karachi Session of 1931, and the acceptance of partition in 1947.
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