Explanation:

• There was a keen desire for establishing an all India organization. A political conference was held in Calcutta in 1883. At this conference, Surendra Bath Bannerje referred to the need for an all India organization. Subsequently, the idea of forming an all India organization was discussed in a private meeting of seventeen persons after the Theosophical Convention held at Madras in 1884. Allan Octavian Hume took initiative in organizing an all India organization.It was granted permission by the Viceroy, Marquis of Dufferin. The first conference of the Congress was to be held at Poona. It was however not held due to the spread of cholera in Poona. Hence statement 3 is not correct.

• The first meeting of the Indian National Congress in 1885 was attended by seventy-two non-official Indian representatives. Looking at their regional distribution, thirty-eight came from Bombay Presidency, twenty-one from Madras, but only four from Bengal, as the Indian Association had convened its own national conference in Calcutta almost at the same time and the Bengal leaders were told of the Bombay conference only at the very last moment. Geographically, within the overall ascendancy of the presidencies, Bengal was gradually slipping from its leadership position, which was being taken over by Bombay, surging ahead of all other regions in those years. Hence statement 1 is not correct.

• Apart from the presidencies, seven representatives came from the four principal towns of North-Western Provinces and Awadh and one each from the three towns of Punjab.

• In their social composition, the Congress from the very beginning suffered from some important weaknesses, the most significant of them being an uneven representation and total exclusion of the non-elite groups of Indian society. It was in other words, despite lofty claims, a gathering of professionals, some landlords, and businessmen, representing primarily the three presidencies of British India. In their social composition too, the members of the early Congress belonged predominantly to the high caste Hindu communities and this pattern continued unchanged for more than two decades of its existence. Hence statement 2 is not correct.