The INC was then not a full-fledged political party, rather a loose association of influential men in provincial politics trying to build up a national platform. Surendranath Benerjee joined the INC at its second session in Calcutta in 1886.
Barrister WC Banerjee was chosen as the first president of the INC's inaugural session in Bombay in December 1885. Hume had the blessings of Viceroy Dufferin who accepted the idea of such an organisation as the 'loyal opposition' to the British Raj. Surendranath Benerjee, who had been playing a key role in organising nationalist forums like the indian association (1876) and the Indian National Conference (1883), welcomed the move of AO Hume, a retired British ICS officer, for establishing an organisation by the western educated upper class Indians to function as a 'safety valve' for the escape of growing resentment of Indians against British rule.
The Anglo-Indian agitation against the Ilbert Bill during the viceroyalty of Lord Ripon served to underline the efficacy of an all-India political organisation as India's English educated politicians wished to speak effectively and authoritatively to the British rulers. Indian National Congress Founded in 1885 by a narrowly based national elite, the Indian National Congress (INC) gradually transformed into a broadbased nationalist organisation from the beginning of the 20th century.
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