Consider the following statements about the issue of the separate electorate during the early decades of the twentieth century in India as a means to secure adequate representation for the deprived social categories in the absence of a universal adult franchise:
1. The All India Depressed Classes Association of M.C. Rajah was staunchly in favour of a joint electorate.
2. The All India Depressed Classes Leaders' Conference demanded a separate electorate.
3. The Communal Award in September 1932 recognised the right to separate the electorate for the 'untouchables'.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
1
1 and 2 only
2
2 and 3 only
3
1 and 3 only
4
1,2 and 3