Question

describe the poona pact​

Answer 1

The Poona Pact was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar on behalf of depressed classes and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India government in 1930. It was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India. It was signed by Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes and by Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of the upper caste Hindus and Gandhi as a means to end the fast that Gandhi was undertaking in jail as a protest against the decision made by British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald to give separate electorates to depressed classes for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India. They finally agreed upon 147 electoral seats.

Answer 2

Hi friend_______,

★ On 1932 Gandhi and Ambedkar negotiated all agreement known as the Poona Pact.

★ The principle of separate electorates was abandoned.

★ Instead the principle of joint electorate was accepted with reservation of seats for the depressed classes.

★ Reserved seats for the depressed classes were increased from 71 to 148.In the central Legislature 18 percent of the seats were reserved.