The main objectives of the Indian National Congress were:
To promote the nation-building process in India in order to create a national identity of being an Indian among the people and to promote National Unity.
To provide for an all India political platform which will allow political workers from all over the country to educate and mobilize masses under a common all India political organization.
To promote political consciousness and political awakening among the educated citizens and then to all the sections of the society.
To promote other things in the country like-political liberal democracy, democratic culture, anti-colonial ideology among the people.