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Describe the main features of poona pact |
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Answer» Friends you are helping me a lot in studiesSayad m hi top karunga The main features of the pact are:1.\xa0There shall be seats reserved for the Depressed Classes out of general electorate.2.\xa0Election to these seats shall be by joint electorates subject, however, to the following procedure –All members of the Depressed Classes registered in the general electoral roll of a constituency will form an electoral college which will elect a panel of four candidates belonging to the Depressed Classes for each of such reserved seats by the method of the single vote and four persons getting the highest number of votes in such primary electionbe the candidates for election by the general electorate.3.\xa0In the Central Legislature 19% of the seats allotted to the general electorate for British India in the said legislature shall be reserved for the Depressed Classes. Thanks 1. British had accepted Dr. Ambedkar\'s demand of separate electorates for Dalits but Gandhi thought that would not integrate the Dalits into the society.2. Gandhi began a fast unto death against the separate electorates so Ambedkar had to agree and the Poona Pact of September 1932 was declared.3. It gave the Depressed Classes reserved seats in the provincial and central legislative councils but not any separate electorates. |
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