[4] During Jawaharlal Nehru's premiership, he rarely held the Presidency of INC, even though he was always head of the Parliamentary Party.

Despite being a party with a structure, Congress under Indira Gandhi did not hold any organisational elections after 1978.

[5] In 1978, Gandhi split from the INC and formed a new opposition party, popularly called Congress (I), which the national election commission declared to be the real Indian National Congress for the 1980 general election.

[10] A total of 61 people have served as the president of the Indian National Congress since its formation.

[11] Sonia Gandhi is the longest serving president of the party, having held the office for over twenty years from 1998 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2022.