All India Mahila Congress (AIMC), also referred to as Mahila Congress, is the women's wing of the Indian National Congress (INC). It was founded in 1940 to promote the political and social empowerment of women in India. Currently Alka Lamba heads the All India Mahila Congress as its president appointed on 5 January 2024.

History

An early high point for the organisation was a conference held in Bangalore in mid-1984 attended by Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and 30,000 delegates.

Organisation The All India Mahila Congress (AIMC) consists of the state level committees designated as Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee (translated as State Women's Congress Committee, and abbreviated as PMCC) which represent the AIMC in the states and union territories of India. The AIMC consists of the card–holding women members of the Indian National Congress who elect the executive committee and state president of each of the PMCCs.

General Secretary In October 2015 Nagma, who was previously a film actress, was appointed to the office General Secretary. In January 2019 INC president Rahul Gandhi appointed Apsara Reddy as National General Secretary, Reddy being noted as the first transgender office holder in the AIMC.

In March 2020, Aiyshwarya Mahadev was appointed its National Secretary.

In August 2021, Netta D'Souza was appointed its Acting National President.

List of presidents + S.noPresident Portrait Period Home State 1.Abida Ahmed19831988Uttar Pradesh2.Jayanti Patnaik19881990Odisha3.Kumudben Joshi19901993Gujarat4.Girija Vyas19931998Rajasthan5.Ambika Soni19981999Punjab6.Chandresh Kumari Katoch19992003Rajasthan7.Rita Bahuguna Joshi20032008Uttar Pradesh8.Prabha Thakur20082011Rajasthan9.Anita Verma20112013Himachal Pradesh10.Shobha Oza20132017Madhya Pradesh11.Sushmita Dev20172021Assam12.Netta D'Souza20215 January 2024Gujarat13.Alka Lamba5 January 2024IncumbentDelhi

List of state presidents PMCCPMCC PresidentSourceAndaman and Nicobar Islands TMCCZubaida BegumAndhra Pradesh PMCCLam Tantiya Kumari Arunachal Pradesh PMCCChugu NachiAssam PMCCMira Borthakur Goswami Bihar PMCCSarwat Jahan FatemaChandigarh TMCCNandita HoodaChhattisgarh PMCCPhulo Devi NetamDadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu TMCCMadhuri Shashikant MahalaDelhi PMCCPushpa Singh Goa PMCCDr. Pratiksha KhalapGujarat PMCCGeetaben Patel Haryana PMCCPearl Chaudhary Himachal Pradesh PMCCJaneb ChandelJammu and Kashmir PMCCShameema RainaJharkhand PMCCGunjan Kumari SinghKarnataka PMCCSowmya ReddyKerala PMCCJebi Mather Ladakh TMCCStanzin A DolkarLakshadweep TMCCSajidha A.Madhya Pradesh PMCCVibha PatelMaharashtra PMCCSandhya SawalakheManipur PMCCMutum Sarma DeviMeghalaya PMCCJoplyn Scott ShyllaMizoram PMCCZodinlianiNagaland PMCCOdi Kumla PongenOdisha PMCCMinakshi BahinipatiPuducherry PMCCA. RahamathunnisaPunjab PMCCGurusharan Kaur RandhawaRajasthan PMCCSarika SinghSikkim PMCCTamil Nadu PMCCM. Hazeena SyedTelangana PMCCSunitha Mogili RaoTripura PMCCSarbani Ghosh ChakrabotyUttarakhand PMCCJyoti RautelaUttar Pradesh PMCC (Central Zone)Mamta ChoudharyUttar Pradesh PMCC (East Zone)Shahla AhrariUttar Pradesh PMCC (Bundailkhand Zone)Karishma ThakurUttar Pradesh PMCC (West Zone)Bharti TyagiUttar Pradesh PMCC (Agra Zone)Mamta RajputWest Bengal PMCCSubrata "Rasu" Dutta

See also

Indian Youth Congress National Students' Union of India

References

External links Official website