432 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
who had failed in the Primary election (if the Primary election be treated as a Final election and the constituency be treated as a single-member constituency).
(iii) Owing to the extreme disparity between the voting strength of the Hindus and the Scheduled Castes—disparity which will not disappear even under adult suffrage—a system of joint electorates will not succeed in giving the Scheduled Castes the chance of returning their true representatives.
(iv) The Poona Pact has completely disfranchised the Scheduled Castes inasmuch as candidates whom they rejected in the Primary elections— which is a true index of their will—have been returned in the Final election by the votes of the Caste Hindus.
The Poona Pact is thus fraught with mischief. It was accepted because of the coercive fast of Mr. Gandhi and because of the assurance given at the time that the Hindus will not interfere in the election of the Scheduled Castes.
FIRST SERIES
Votes obtained by the successful Scheduled Caste candidates as compared with the votes secured by the successful Caste Hindu candidates.
Page Nos. Part I—Madras . . . . . . 433 Part II—Bengal . . . . . . 433-34 Part III—Bombay . . . . . . 434 Part IV—U.P. . . . . . . 435 Part V—C.P. . . . . . . 435 Part VI—Assam . . . . . . 436 Part VII—Orissa . . . . . . 436