All India Trade Union Congress - Wikipedia All India Trade Union Congress AITUC Full name All India Trade Union Congress Founded 31 October 1920 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India Lala Lajpat Rai : First President Diwan Chaman Lall : First General Secretary Members 2,677,979 ( 2002 ) Affiliation WFTU Key people Ramendra Kumar, National President Gurudas Dasgupta, General Secretary Office location New Delhi Country India AITUC rally in Alappuzha The All India Trade Union Congress ( AITUC ) is the oldest trade union federations in India. It is not Politically affiliated to any political party including the Communist Party of India. But itself is the third largest Communist Party in India after CPI ( M ) and CPI. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, AITUC had a membership of 2,677,979 in 2002. It was founded on 31 October 1920 in Bombay by Lala Lajpat Rai, Joseph Baptista, N.M. Joshi, Diwan Chaman Lall and a few others and, until 1945 when unions became organised on party lines, it was the primary trade union organisation in India. Since then, it has been associated with the Communist Party of India. AITUC is governed by a body headed by National President Ramendra Kumar and General Secretary Gurudas Dasgupta, both the politician affiliated with Communist Party of India. AITUC is a founder member of the World Federation of Trade Unions. Today, its institutional records are part of the Archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, at Teen Murti House, Delhi. Contents 1 Affiliates 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Affiliates partial list : Andhra Pradesh Auto Rickshaw Drivers and Workers Federation A.P. Mica Mine Workers Union Calcutta Hawkers ' Men Union Federation of Chatkal Mazdoor Unions Nikhila Orissa Beedi Shramika Federation Patiala Aviation Club Workers Union Pondicherry Textile Labour Union Powerloom Workers Union Punjab Breweries Workers Union Vegetable Market Workers Union Visakha Steel Workers Union See also Indian Trade Unions Organized labour portal References Jump up ^ `` Archived copy '' ( PDF ). Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2011. Jump up ^ N. Jayapalan ( 2001 ). History Of India ( from National Movement To Present Day ), Volume 4. Atlantic Publishers. p. 139. ISBN 9788171569175. Jump up ^ `` Archives ''. Nehru Memorial Museum & Library. ICTUR et al.,, ed. ( 2005 ). Trade Unions of the World ( 6th ed. ). London, UK : John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0 - 9543811 - 5 - 7. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to All India Trade Union Congress. Official website Archive of AITUC documents Communist Party of India General secretaries B.T. Ranadive S. Sudhakar Reddy Chief Ministers E.M.S. Namboodiripad P.K. Vasudevan Nair C. Achutha Menon Related organisations All India Trade Union Congress All India Youth Federation All India Students Federation National Federation of Indian Women All India Kisan Sabha Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union All India State Government Employees Federation This article related to an Indian trade union is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_India_Trade_Union_Congress&oldid=851879162 '' Categories : All India Trade Union Congress Labour movement in India World Federation of Trade Unions Trade unions established in 1920 1920 establishments in India 1920s establishments in British India Socialist organisations in India Indian trade union stubs Hidden categories : Use Indian English from July 2016 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from July 2016 Pages using deprecated image syntax All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia हिन्दी Bahasa Indonesia മലയാളം मराठी ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Svenska 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 25 July 2018, at 05 : 03 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who is the first president of all india trade union congress
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai