Consider the following leaders Mahatma Gandhi B.R. Ambedkar Madan Mohan Malaviya M.C. Rajah Who among the above were associated with Poona Pact?
Consider the following leaders Mahatma Gandhi B.R. Ambedkar Madan Mohan Malaviya M.C. Rajah Who among the above were associated with Poona Pact? Correct Answer All the above
The correct answer is Option 4, i.e All the above.
- It established separate electorates and reserved seats for minorities, including the depressed classes which were granted seventy-eight reserved seats.
- Gandhi saw the Communal Award as an attack on Indian unity and nationalism.
- Gandhi demanded that the depressed classes be elected through joint and if possible a wider electorate through the universal franchise while expressing no objection to the demand for a larger number of reserved seats.
- And to press his demands, he went on an indefinite fast on September 20, 1932.
- Now leaders of various persuasions, including B.R. Ambedkar, M.C. Rajah, and Madan Mohan Malaviya got together to hammer out a compromise contained in the Poona Pact.
- Signed by B.R. Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes on September 24, 1932, the Poona Pact abandoned the idea of separate electorates for the depressed classes.
- But the seats reserved for the depressed classes were increased from 71 to 147 in provincial legislatures and to 18 percent of the total in the Central Legislature.
- The Poona Pact was accepted by the government as an amendment to the Communal Award.
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