The correct answer is option 1. Explanation & Key Takeaways: • First Session of INC: • The first session of the INC was proposed at Poona, but because of an outbreak of Cholera in Poona, the venue was shifted to Bombay. • In the first session that was held in Bombay, at the ‘Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Pathshala’ only 72 delegates had participated and most of them belonged to a background of lawyers, and there weren’t any women in this session. • The first president of this session was W.C. Bonnerjee, a prominent lawyer by vocation. • In the very first session, the Early Nationalists, presented 9 resolutions before the British, and Lord Dufferin who was closely watching the activities of the Indian National Congress called the organization a ‘microscopic minority'. • British officials who were present at the first session of the National Congress: • Allan Hume, • Henri Cotton and • William Wedderburn