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Indian NATIONAL
CONGRESS
• It was founded in 1885 by Allan
Octavian Hume.
• The President of the first session
was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee.
• The Congress Leaders who
approached British in a peaceful
manner were called Moderates.
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat
Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal (Lal-Bal-
Pal) were the important radical
leaders.
• Tilak gave the famous slogan,
”Swaraj is my birth right and I
shall have it”.