Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at Patna Session held in 1912 ?
R. N. Madhulkar
The Patna session of the Indian National Congress in 1912 was presided over by Rao Bahadur Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar — written here as R. N. Madhulkar, option 4.
The session. This was the twenty-seventh session of the Congress and the first ever held at Patna, in December 1912 — significant because the province of Bihar and Orissa had just been separated from Bengal in that same year, and Patna had become its capital. Mudholkar was a lawyer and Moderate leader from Amravati in Berar, long associated with municipal and provincial politics, and he took the chair at a time when the Congress was still recovering from the Surat split of 1907.
| Name | What he is actually known for |
|---|---|
| Saiyed Mohammad Bahadur | Presided over the Congress session at Calcutta in 1913 |
| Sir S. P. Sinha (Satyendra Prasanna Sinha) | Presided at Bombay in 1915; the first Indian on the Viceroy’s Executive Council and later Lord Sinha of Raipur |
| Saiyed Hassan Imam | Presided over the special Bombay session of 1918, called over the Montagu-Chelmsford proposals; a judge of the Calcutta High Court from Bihar |
| R. N. Mudholkar | Presided over the Patna session of 1912 |
Why this is a hard question. All four names are genuine figures of the period, and three of the four did preside over Congress sessions — just in other years. Two of them, Sinha and Hassan Imam, were also Bihar figures, which makes them natural distractors in a Bihar Public Service Commission paper. The only way through is to remember the year attached to each presidency.
Nearby presidencies worth fixing in memory : 1911 Calcutta — Bishan Narayan Dar; 1912 Patna — R. N. Mudholkar; 1913 Karachi — Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur; 1915 Bombay — S. P. Sinha; 1916 Lucknow — A. C. Majumdar, the session of the Congress-League Pact.
Hence, the answer is R. N. Madhulkar.
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