ભારતીય રાષ્ટ્રીય કોંગ્રેસ: આવૃત્તિઓ વચ્ચેનો તફાવત

|foundation = ૧૮૮૫

|dissolution =

|publication = ''કોંગ્રેસ સંદેશ''

|students = [[National Students Union of India]]

|labour = [[Indian National Trade Union Congress]]

|peasants =

|symbol = [[File:ભારતીય રાષ્ટ્રીય કોંગ્રેસ.svg|INC party symbol|125px]]

|website = {{URL|http://www.aicc.org.in/}}

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In the pre-independence era, the INC featured a number of prominent political figures: [[Dadabhai Naoroji]], a member of the sister [[Indian National Association]], elected president of the Congress in 1886, and between 1892 and 1895 the first Indian Member of Parliament in the [[British House of Commons]]; [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]; [[Bipin Chandra Pal]]; [[Lala Lajpat Rai]]; [[Gopal Krishna Gokhale]]; and [[Mohammed Ali Jinnah]], later leader of the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] and instrumental in the creation of [[Pakistan]]. The Congress was transformed into a mass movement by [[Surendranath Banerjea]] and Sir [[Henry John Stedman Cotton|Henry Cotton]] during the [[Partition of Bengal (1905)|partition of Bengal in 1905]] and the resultant [[Swadeshi movement]]. [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Mohandas Gandhi]] returned from South Africa in 1915 and with the help of the moderate group led by Ghokhale became president of the Congress and formed an alliance with the [[Khilafat Movement|Khilafat movement]]. In protest a number of leaders—[[Chittaranjan Das]], [[Annie Besant]], [[Motilal Nehru]]—resigned from the Congress to set up the [[Swaraj Party]]. The Khilafat movement collapsed and the Congress was split.

[[File:Gandhi 1929.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Mahatma Gandhi]], President of Congress party during 1924]]

 

The 1929 Lahore session under the presidency of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] holds special significance as in this session "Poorna Swaraj" (complete independence) was declared as the goal of the INC. 26 January 1930 was declared as "Poorna Swaraj Diwas", Independence Day, although the British would remain in India for 17 more years. To commemorate this date the [[Constitution of India]] was formally adopted on 26 January 1950, even though it had been passed on 26 November 1949. However, in 1929, Srinivas Iyenger was expelled from the Congress for demanding full independence, not just [[home rule]] as demanded by Gandhi.