who was the president of indian national congress?
Sonia Gandhi Shankar Dayal Sharma N. S. V. Chitthan Indira Gandhi Manmohan Singh Rajiv Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Pratibha Patil P. V. Narasimha Rao Ambareesh
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 The Indian National Congress ( INC ) is one of the two major political parties in India . The prominent members of the party are the president Sonia Gandhi , vice @-@ president Rahul Gandhi , former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Priyanka Gandhi . INC took part in the elections alongside other members of the United Progressive Alliance . On the fourth anniversary of the second United Progressive Alliance government , the INC announced that its campaign for the election would be led by incumbent prime minister Manmohan Singh , party chairperson Sonia Gandhi , and general secretary Rahul Gandhi . 

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 A few days before India gained its independence in August 1947 , the Constituent Assembly was formed . To select a flag for independent India , on 23 June 1947 , the assembly set up an ad hoc committee headed by Rajendra Prasad and including Maulana Abul Kalam Azad , Sarojini Naidu , C. Rajagopalachari , K. M. Munshi and B. R. Ambedkar as its members . 

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 The Congress endorsed the joint statement from the London conference over the angry dissent from some elements . The League refused to do so , and took no part in the constitutional discussions . Jinnah had been willing to consider some continued links to Hindustan ( as the Hindu @-@ majority state which would be formed on partition was sometimes referred to ) , such as a joint military or communications . However , by December 1946 , he insisted on a fully sovereign Pakistan with dominion status . 

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 The Congress followed the failed Cripps mission by demanding , in August 1942 , that the British immediately " Quit India " , proclaiming a mass campaign of satyagraha until they did . The British promptly arrested most major leaders of the Congress and imprisoned them for the remainder of the war . Gandhi , however , was placed on house arrest in one of the Aga Khan 's palaces prior to his release for health reasons in 1944 . With the Congress leaders absent from the political scene , Jinnah warned against the threat of Hindu domination and maintained his Pakistan demand without going into great detail about what that would entail . Jinnah also worked to increase the League 's political control at the provincial level . He helped to found the newspaper Dawn in the early 1940s in Delhi ; it helped to spread the League 's message and eventually became the major English @-@ language newspaper of Pakistan . 

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 The Indian National Congress won the 1937 elections in Madras Presidency . Rajaji became the Chief Minister on 14 July 1937 . He was a supporter of propagating Hindi in South India . On 11 August 1937 , within a month of coming to power , he announced his intention to introduce Hindi language teaching in secondary schools by issuing a policy statement . On 21 April 1938 , he issued a government order ( G.O. ) making the teaching of Hindi compulsory in 125 secondary schools in the Presidency . Periyar and the opposition Justice Party led by A. T. Panneerselvam immediately opposed the move . They started statewide protests against Rajaji and Hindi . 
