what is the difference between separate electorate and reserved constituency
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Separate Electorate : The community to which the electorate belongs would choose their own leaders via an election in which the candidates of only their community would be allowed to contest and only their community members would vote. This would mean that the elections for choosing the leaders of that particular community would be held separately and would not come under general elections. Many people including Mahatma Gandhi saw how divisive it could turn out to be for the society. Finally this idea was scrapped after strong resistance by Mahatma Gandhi.
Reservation of Seats : The candidates in the election can belong only to a particular community for which it is reserved. However, every eligible voter in the constituency would vote and the leader chosen would represent them all. Now , since the idea of Separate Electorate was scrapped and B.R Ambedkar and many others argued that some communities would not get sufficient say in the Government if it was left to general elections. Hence, Reservation of Seats was the method chosen by general consensus.
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