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SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 49

SSC CGL - 18 April 2022 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q49

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The Poona Pact of 1932 was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and ______.
 

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. BR Ambedkar.

  • The Pact was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and Bhim Rao Ambedkar on September 24, 1932, while Gandhi was in Yerwada Central Jail, Pune thereby ending Gandhi's fast.
  • Poona Pact was a solution to the Communal Award announced on August 16, 1932 by the British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald.
  • Mahatma Gandhi announced that he would fast unto death if the clause of separate electorates was not removed from the communal award.