Subhas Chandra Bose was elected President of the Indian National Congress for the first time at its session held in 1938 at:

Subhas Chandra Bose was elected President of the Indian National Congress at its 51st session, held at Haripura, in present-day Gujarat, in February 1938.

About the Haripura session (1938):

• It was held in the village of Haripura, in the Surat district, on the banks of the river Tapi.
• It was one of the few Congress sessions held in a village.
• The artist Nandalal Bose decorated the venue with a series of paintings (the "Haripura posters") depicting rural life, at the request of Gandhi.
• Bose was taken in a procession in a chariot drawn by 51 bullocks.

Work during his presidency:

• Bose set up the National Planning Committee (1938), with Jawaharlal Nehru as its chairman, to plan the economic development of free India.
• He supported the struggles of the people in the princely states.

The Tripuri crisis (1939):

• In 1939, Bose stood for re-election at the Tripuri session (near Jabalpur), and defeated Pattabhi Sitaramayya, who was supported by Gandhi.
• Gandhi said that Sitaramayya's defeat was his own defeat.
• Bose faced opposition from the members of the Working Committee, who resigned, and he resigned as President in April 1939.
• Rajendra Prasad was then elected President.
• Bose formed the Forward Bloc (May 1939), within the Congress.

Later life:

• Bose escaped from house arrest in Calcutta and reached Germany through Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
• He led the Indian National Army and the Provisional Government of Azad Hind from Singapore (1943).
• He gave the slogan "Dilli Chalo" and the greeting "Jai Hind".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Tripuri was the session of 1939 (his re-election); Faizpur and Lucknow were the sessions of 1936.