<P> 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 British India government . 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 depressed classes for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India . They finally agreed upon 148 seats . </P> <P> The Terms of the Poona pact were as follows . </P>

When was the poona pact signed and why
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