Given below are two statements:
Statement (I) : The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta.
Statement (II) : The second session of the Indian National Congress was held under the Presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Statement (I): The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta. Incorrect. The first session met in Bombay in December 1885, at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, with W. C. Bonnerjee as President and 72 delegates. It had been planned for Poona but was moved because of an outbreak of cholera there.
Statement (II): The second session of the Indian National Congress was held under the Presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji. Correct. The second session met in Calcutta in 1886, presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji.