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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 74 of 200

Q74
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
Who was the first president of Indian National Congress (1885)?
  1. a.Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
  2. b.Baba Saheb Vimrao Ambedkar
  3. c.Firoz Shah Mehta
  4. d.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer: (A) Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

W. C. Bonnerjee presided over the first session of the Congress at Bombay in December 1885. Pherozeshah Mehta presided in 1890, Patel in 1931, and Ambedkar never presided over the Congress.

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