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Who was the first Woman President of the Indian National Congress ?

Annie Besant presided over the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1917, becoming its first woman President. Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to…

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Annie Besant presided over the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1917, becoming its first woman President.

Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to preside, at the Kanpur session of 1925, and Indira Gandhi became Congress President only in 1959.

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