The December 28th , Formation Of Indian National " CONGRESS" :: Totally Failed As A Party For Which It Was Set Up For

Pic :: The Scenario of the setting and formation of Indian National Congress during it's primitive days

Some dates are important only to be remembered as OH !! those were the times and such now has become the day and when one talks about the Congress this is the one thought that emanicipates out from the memory.

Many would NOT at all know that December 28th 1885 was the day when the ALL-INDIA-NATIONAL-CONGRESS was formed. It is thus that the Congress till now has celebrated it's 135 years of it's existence . It was formed with an intentio of SWADESHI , ie the principles of NATIONALITY and the IDEALS of the land and the soil of India would be it's SOLE criteria and intentions, but ALAS, Congress has totally been drowned in the mid stream of foreign nationality. This is one fact that cannot be easily denied by the one's who know a LOT about the Indian politics and has seen it through the open eye. 

The Indian National Congress founded in 1885 was the institutionalized form of emergent Indian nationalism.

First Organised Expression an an All India Scale 

It was the first organized expression of Indian nationalism on an all-India scale. It was the sole intention of the party to put the INDIANISM on  a pure matter and a way to the WORLD across and to the Britishers about India and her motive to stand across the face of the world as a country which will never severe and get itself away from the idealism that the nation India and it's principle that it stands for. 

CONGRESS::  EDUCATED " SOUL" OF BENGAL FORMED IT BUT HONOUR TAKEN AWAY BY OTHERS 

The birth of the Indian National Congress was not a sudden event or a historical accident but the result of a gradual effort of a number of educated Indians of Bengal and other regions who were very much dissatisfied and disgusted by the exploitative nature of the alien British rule. It was some BRILLIANT educated soul from Bengal who had the BRAINS much more and above the Britishers and who would put the British and their heads for a toss for them to learn from these Bengalis, who came forward to take on the British and their HEINOUS activities to put them to the sword, that formed the Congress and actually that was it. However within the passage of times it was ascribed and scribbed in the books of the History that Congress was the brain child play of the GANDHIS and the NEHRUS which actually it is not. These Gandhi's and the Nehru's actually hijacked Congress as a party and that is the truth. 

In India, we notice a process of the beginning of political awakening since 1860, which took a major leap forward in 1870-1880 and finally led to the founding of the Indian National Congress in December 1885. R.C. Majumdar aptly observes, “ The national conference held in Calcutta in 1883 forestalled it in all essential aspects".

The picture above is the FIRST session of the Indian national Congress which was held at Calcutta then .Slowly this took the shape of a huge big national movement and it's process which started from Calcutta, then, by those Bengali's and it spread all over India. The movement caught the fancies of a many and it was in this date , the december 28th 1885 that the All India Congress Party was formed. 

The forerunners of the Indian National Congress were many and among them the most important ones were:

(a) The British Indian Association founded in Bengal in 1843,

(b) British India Association founded in Bengal in 1851,

(c) India League founded in 1875,

(d) Indian Association in 1876,

(e) Bombay Association founded in early fifties of the 19th century,

(f) Poona Sarvajanik Sabha set up in 1886, and

(g) National Conference in 1883.

Besides these major regional organizations in India, some radicals in England founded the British India Society in 1837 to promote and create interest in the conditions of India. In the year 1843, the Bengal British India Society was founded by George Thompson with the goal of advancement of the public welfare by peaceful means while being completely loyal to the British crown.

Mr Surendranath Banerjee :: the " SOUL" actually of the Congress and a COMPLETE forgotten man 

It was the HEART , the BRAIN and the TRUST of Mr Surendranath Banerjee , a famous Bar-At-Law of that time who was the brain and the idea to form the All India National Congress and it was his untiring and zeal that he could amalgamate the entire Indians at that time to come under a single umbrella and form the party which is now known as Congress party.

This party from time to time since the early thirties saw being disintegrated and minced within the party itself to become what we see today. The man Mr Surendranath Banerjee is NO LONGER given any due and any honour as the one who formed the party.In 1969 it was Mrs Smt Indira gandhi who broke the Congress to make it CONGRESS ( I ) which actually meant CONGRESS INDIRA and ever since then it is written in the balck and the white that it was the Gandhi's who had to do everything with the Congress which is a lie, A BELANT LIE . Mr Banerjee left no stone unturned as one might call it, to make this one a famous and a office for every Indian to be a part of it by spreading it's wing to all over India. 

The British India Association actively campaigned for throwing open offices to all Indians, trial by jury, and establishment of provincial and central legislative councils with elected representatives. The Indian Association spearheaded by Surendranath Banerjee acted as a catalyst in creating awareness by undertaking mobilization activity against the injustices done to Indians in general and to Surendranath Banerjee in particular. Thus started an agitational strategy when age limit was reduced for Indians to appear for ICS and when a judge wanted an idol to be brought to the court.

Surendranath Banerjee initiated all-India tour to propagate the idea of national self-respect and he may justifiably be called the first national leader of India. We can agree with Bipan Chandra that the foundation of the Congress was the natural outcome of the political awareness and work done by various bodies in the years between 1850 and 1885. In the process of the foundation of the Indian National Congress by 72 people in 1885 at Bombay, undoubtedly, A.O. Hume, a retired civil servant of India played a very crucial role along with other early nationalist leaders like Naoroji, Ranade, Banerjee and others.

Safety-Valve:: A MYTH that always has found it's place about the Congress 

Myth and story LIE have been a propounding theory about the Congress which at every instance of time, the Congressite's have always played their cards as if a TRUMP-CARD for them.Their untiring and many folding LIE have always been the strength to amass themselves as the propelling jet of the party to move it far and beyond the imagination of anybody.That actually has brutalised and have destroyed the Congress in the long run though from time to time it has benifitted the few.

But a powerful and long-lasting myth, the myth of ‘ Safety Valve ’ has been in circulation, which states that the Indian National Congress was started by A.O. Hume and others under the official direction, guidance and advice of a no less a person than Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy, to provide a safe, mild, peaceful and constitutional outlet or ‘safety valve’ for the rising discontent among the masses, which was inevitably leading to a popular and violent revolution. This now has taken a different shape by a different name but the race about the lie still goes around and it still hangs. 

The Theory Of " TIME-FACTOR " and the " SAFETY - VALVE " 

Bipan Chandra after a detailed discussion about this myth and reality observes that the ‘ safety valve ’ theory is a myth but as ‘ time facto r’ was not ripe or suitable for the Indians to start an organization, the earliest nation­alists Dadabhai Naoroji, Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, Pherozeshah Mehta, G. Subrahmanya Iyer and Surendranath Banerjee cooperated with Hume because they did not like to arouse official hostility at such an early stage of their work. Gokhale aptly points out “ No Indian could have started the Indian National Congress ”.

If an Indian had come forward to start such a movement embracing all-India, the officials in India would not have allowed the movement to come into existence. If the founder of the Congress had not been a great Englishman and distinguished ex-official, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authorities would have at once found some way or the other to suppress the movement.

Bipan Chandra concludes this discussion on myth and reality as follows:

“ If Hume and other English liberals hoped to use the Congress as a safety-valve, the Congress leaders hoped to use Hume as a lightening conductor. And as later developments show, it was the congress leaders whose hopes were fulfilled ”.

It was Mr Bipin Chandra Pal in the annals of the history of the Congress who came out of the Congress to join his hand with Bal Gangadhar tilak and Lala Lajpat rai to form a party which was known as ALL INDIA REVOLUTIONARY PARTY which became famous to be known as BAL-PAL-LAL and this party infact infused the spirit to fight to Britshers by the law of BULLETS for THEIR BULLETS and PEACE FOR THEIR PEACE. Many like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekar Azad, Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Rajendra Lahiri , Udham Singh then had joined this party and fought the Britishers on the parallel lines. he last to hit the nail on the COFFIN of the Congress was Mr Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose who left the Congress to form his own movement to liberate the Indians. 

 Percival Spear states, “ At the start the Congress was a modest body, having only seventy delegates at its first session. But from the first it formed a focus for the new classes’ political opinions. By 1900, it had spread all over India and was regarded by the forward looking members of the new class as the natural mouthpiece of their aspira­tions. Its support came mainly from the new professionals with a sprinkling of businessmen in Bombay and of landlords in Bengal ”.

The first step in the direction of founding of Indian National Congress was initiated by Hume in March 1883 by appealing to the graduates of the Calcutta University to come together to form an association for the moral and political regeneration of the Indians. In his appeal he stressed “self-sacrifice and unselfishness as the only unfailing guides to freedom and happiness”. In response to his appeal, Indian National Union was formed in 1884 under his leadership. Subsequently, it turned into Indian National Congress.

From there and till now the arguement remains. Who actually is the real founder of the Indian National Congress, is it Mr Surendra Nath Banerjee  or is it Mr Hume and still a doubt that lingers have not been cleared by the Congress itself. However it has now become the PARTY-OF-A-SINGLE-FAMILY that rules, and that runs it. 

The objectives of the Indian National Congress were proclaimed by its first president W. Chandra Banerjee as follows:

(1) The promotion of personal intimacy and friendship among workers from various comers of India.

(2) The eradication of all prejudices from the minds of every Indian towards the others and to foster sentiments of national unity among all the inhabitants of India.

In the beginning, the Indian National Congress stood for piecemeal reforms by submitting petitions, resolutions and deputation to satisfy the demands of the Indians expressing their faith in the political liberalism of the British Raj.

The Indian National Congress through resolution demanded for:

(i) The appointment of a commission to inquire into the working of the Indian government,

(ii) The abolition of the India council of the Secretary of state for India,

(iii) Creation of legislative councils of the north-west provinces and Awadh and the Punjab,

(iv) Enhancement of the number of elected members in the central and provincial legislative councils with the right of interpolation and discussion of the budget and the creation of a standing committee in the house of commons to look into the demands of the people,

(v) Reduction of military expenditure and equitable division of expen­diture between India and England,

(vi) Introduction of simultaneous Public Service Examinations in England and India and raising age of the candidates who wish to appear for ICS. Till 1905, the Indian National Congress, demanded only for piecemeal reforms through petitions and prayers.

On the basis of the goal, strategy and technique adopted by the Indian National Congress, the national movement of India was divided as moderate phase (1885-1905), extremist phase (1905 to 1918) and the revolutionary phase and finally the Gandhian phase (1919 to 1947).

Well from 1947 to 2020....... 73 years. the Congress now lies with PEACE in the POLITICAL .. that we can term as..  " ICU " .. with NOBODY having any corner to the party except some who believe in serving that ONE-FAMILY .

This party from time to time kept on changing it's principles even faster than a chameleon that would change it's colour as a result it has LOST everything that it held and today it is a party which has FAILED to follw the principles for which it was set up for. This actually decries all about the description of this party. 

This is all that I can vouch and write it for and this sums it up all.

Well , that is it and That sums it all.

Regards and Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .

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