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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 47 of 200

Q47
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
Who was the first Muslim President of Indian National Congress?
  1. a.Badruddin Tyabji
  2. b.M. A. Jinnah
  3. c.Ajmal Khan
  4. d.Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (A) Badruddin Tyabji

Badruddin Tyabji presided over the third session of the Congress at Madras in 1887, becoming its first Muslim President. Hakim Ajmal Khan (1921) and Maulana Azad (1923, 1940) presided later, and Jinnah never presided over the Congress.