In September 1932, in Yerwada jail in Poona, Gandhi began a fast unto death against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes. On September 24, 1932, the Poona Pact was signed, a settlement between Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar. Instead of separate electorates, it gave the Depressed Classes reserved seats within the general electorate.
Ambedkar later wrote of the fast: “It was against them and was the worst form of coercion against a helpless people to give up the constitutional safeguards.”