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Railways PYQCBT 1 2016

RRB NTPC · Question 6

Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

  1. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  3. Allan Octavian Hume

  4. Dadabhai Naoroji

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Answer: (A) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

Explanation

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay in December 1885. A. O. Hume founded the Congress but was its General Secretary, not its President.