Consider the following statements regarding Praja Mandals or State’s People’s Conference:

1. Praja Mandals were organised in the British Provinces during the Home Rule Movement.

2. Important leaders responsible for this initiative were Balwantrai Mehta, Maniklal Kothari and G. R. Abhyankar.

Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?

Praja Mandals or State’s People’s Conference were organised during the Non-Cooperation Movement and the Khilafat Movement in the princely states. Some of the states, in which these were organised, include Mysore, Hyderabad, Baroda, Kathiawad, Deccan, Jamnagar, Indore and Nawanagar. This process came to a head in 1927, with the convening of the All India State’s People’s Conference (AISPC), which was attended by many political workers from the states. The men chiefly responsible for this initiative include Balwantrai Mehta, Maniklal Kothari and G. R. Abhyankar.