Congress president Sonia Gandhi has hoisted the party flag at the party headquarters in New Delhi, marking the 130st Congress Foundation Day on December 28, 2015. Senior party leaders including vice-president Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Sheila Dikshit and spokesperson Manish Tewari were present on the occasion.

Founded on December 28, 1885, the Congress held its first session on this day in Mumbai. It was attended by 72 delegates.

The state units of the Congress will also celebrate the day with a series of events during which tributes will be paid to Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and other Congress leaders.

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• The party was founded in 1885 during the British Raj; its founders include Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Wacha.
• Since Independence, there have been seven Congress Prime Ministers, the first being Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–64), and the most recent Manmohan Singh (2004–14).
• In the 2014 general election, the Congress had its poorest post-independence general election performance, winning only 44 seats of the 543-member house.
• The first meeting was scheduled to be held in Poona, but due to a cholera outbreak there it was shifted to Bombay.
• Hume organised the first meeting in Bombay with the approval of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin.
• Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of the Congress.