Which one among the following was demanded by the All India Depressed Classes Leaders' Conference at Bombay in 1931?

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The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Separate electorates for untouchables.

All India Depressed Classes Leaders' Conference

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar belonged to the untouchable Mahar caste.
He tried to integrate untouchables into Indian society in modern ways, not traditional ways.
His program was based on education and exercise of legal and political rights.
He started an all-India organization for the rejection of all forms of feudalism imposed upon the Dalits and started mass campaigns to demand separate electorates.
In the 1920s a major untouchability movement was launched by Ambedkar in Maharashtra.
In 1924 Dr. Ambedkar founded the "Bahishkrit Hitkarini Sabha" a Depressed Classes Institute in Bombay.
In 1927 he started "Bahishkrit Bharat" a Marathi fortnightly and established the Samaj Samta Sangh to propagate the gospel of social equality between caste Hindus and untouchables.
In 1927 he led the Mahad Satyagraha to establish the rights of untouchables to draw water from public wells and tanks.
He also organized temple entry movements.
Before the Round Table Conference of 1930-31 Ambedkar emerged as the major leader of the depressed classes and demanded constitutional safeguards for the depressed classes.
In the All India Depressed Classes Leaders' Conference at Bombay in 1931, he demanded separate electorates for untouchables. Hence option 2 is correct.