<P> Hume organised the first meeting in Bombay with the approval of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin . Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of Congress ; the first session was attended by 72 delegates . Representing each province of India . Notable representatives included Scottish ICS officer William Wedderburn , Dadabhai Naoroji , Pherozeshah Mehta of the Bombay Presidency Association , Ganesh Vasudeo Joshi of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha , social reformer and newspaper editor Gopal Ganesh Agarkar , Justice K.T. Telang , N.G. Chandavarkar , Dinshaw Wacha , Behramji Malabari , journalist and activist Gooty Kesava Pillai , and P. Rangaiah Naidu of the Madras Mahajana Sabha . This small elite group , unrepresentative of the Indian masses at the time , functioned more as a stage for elite Indian ambitions than a political party for the first decade of its existence . </P>
<P> Hume organised the first meeting in Bombay with the approval of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin . Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of Congress ; the first session was attended by 72 delegates . Representing each province of India . Notable representatives included Scottish ICS officer William Wedderburn , Dadabhai Naoroji , Pherozeshah Mehta of the Bombay Presidency Association , Ganesh Vasudeo Joshi of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha , social reformer and newspaper editor Gopal Ganesh Agarkar , Justice K.T. Telang , N.G. Chandavarkar , Dinshaw Wacha , Behramji Malabari , journalist and activist Gooty Kesava Pillai , and P. Rangaiah Naidu of the Madras Mahajana Sabha . This small elite group , unrepresentative of the Indian masses at the time , functioned more as a stage for elite Indian ambitions than a political party for the first decade of its existence . </P>
who presided the first session of indian national congress
who presided the first session of indian national congress
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee