AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF CONGRESS
1-Promotion of friendship amongst the countrymen.
2-Development and consolidation of feeling of national unity irre- spective of race, caste, religion or provinces
3-Formulation of popular demands and presentation before the Gov-ernment through petitions.
4-Training and organization of pub-lic opinion.
6-Recording of the opinions of educated classes on pressing problems
7-Laying down lines for future course of action in public interest.
Indian National Congress
1-The First meeting of the INC was organised by A 0 Hume at Gokaldas Tejpal Sanskrit College on 28th
December 1885 (Bombay).
2- Its first President was W C Bonnerjee. 3-It was the first organised expression of the Indian National movement on an all-India scale.
4-Hume’s main purpose in encouraging the foundation of the congress was probably to provide a “safety valve” to the growing discontent among the educated Indians.
The Methods of Work
1-Early Congressmen had faith in peaceful and constitutional agitation.
2-Prayers & petitions were the instruments.
3-Congress sessions lasted only for three days a year. had no machinery to carry on the work in the interval.
4-They helieved in the goodness of the British nation and believed that all would be well if the British could be acquainted with the true slate of affairs in India.
5-Deputations of Indians were sent to inform the British public
6- In 1889, a British Committee of INC was founded.
i,M NOT FOLLOWING THAT ABOVE COMMENTS ARE TRUE OR NOT ABOUT INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS. MY EVER SALUTES TO THEIR DEDICATIONS ARE ALWAYS WITH DOWNWARD MY HEAD . MY EVER SALUTES TO ALL THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
ReplyDeleteI,M DEEPLY AGREE WITH SIR BIPIN CHANDRA ,S STATEMENT THAT, "IF HUME AND OTHER ENGLISH LIBERALS HOPED TO USE CONGRESS AS A SAFETY VALVE, THE CONGRESS LEADERS HOPED TO USE HUME AS A LIGHTENING CONDUCTOR" VERY MUCH SUITABLE WORDS BY SIR BIPIN CHANDRA JI
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