Poona Pact, 1932
The Poona Pact refers to an agreement between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of then British India. It was made on the 24th of September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India and was signed by Madan Mohan Malviya, Ambedkar and some other leaders as a means to end the fast that Gandhi was undertaking in jail as a protest against the decision by British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald to give separate electorates to Dalits for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India. They finally agreed upon 148 seats.
The Terms of the Poona pact were as follows.
1. There shall be seats reserved for the Depressed Classes out of general electorate. Seats in the provincial Legislatures were as follows: -
These figures were based on the total strength of the Provincial Councils announced in Ramsay Macdonald's decision.
2. Election to these seats shall be by
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