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Who was the first president of the Indian National Congress?

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Mahatma Gandhi, holding a walking stick, walks beside Sarojini Naidu during the Salt March protest in 1930, with several men following behind them. — Indian National Congress Indian National Congress leaders Mahatma Gandhi (left) and Sarojini Naidu (right) on the Salt March in western India, March 1930.

The first president of the Indian National Congress was W.C. Bonnerjee, who presided over the party's inaugural meeting held in Bombay (now Mumbai) in December 1885.2