Mahamana as a Statesman

"Here India's problems have not been fully understood, here there is no such atmosphere to recognize the actual position of Indians and their reasonable demands. We cannot liberate people from their pitiable condition until the power of management is in our hands. We desire that law should be respected, but law should also honour person's independence and a person be given that which he has the right to claim for the government."
When on 17 August 1932, British Prime Minister, Ramsay Mac Donald drew a provisional plan for providing separate representation to minorities (including the Dalit class of Hindus), it was strongly opposed by almost every prominent leader of the Congress and a meeting of Hindu leaders was convened in Bombay on 19 September under the chairmanship of Malaviyaji. Here, they decided to abolish untouchability. Malaviyaji played a crucial role in bringing settlement between Harijans and higher classes by signing 'Yerawada Pact' (Poona Pact) along with Dr. Ambedkar and Shri M.C. Raja on 24 September which led Mahatmaa Gandhiato give up his fast.
Malaviyaji's position in the Congress party had become more prominent by now and it was due to the respect he commanded amongst the members that he was invited to unveil the memorial stone-edict at Tejpal Gokul Das Sanskrit Pathshala on the occasion of Congress's 50th anniversary.
Malaviyaji also served the nation as an active elected member of the United Provinces Council from 1902 to 1912, Supreme Legislative Council from 1910 to1920 and Central Legislative Assembly from 1923 to 1930. During his 28 years of political career there were hardly any social, political, cultural, academic and religious issues which escaped the perceptive eyes of Malaviyaji. He spoke on various problems that marred the country faced such as revenue and taxation, famine, hunger, poverty, mismanagement, irrigation, illiteracy, health, forced labour etc. (Read his inspiring speeches here)
Apart from serving the legislature and Indian National Congress, Malaviyaji enthusiastically served the people of Allahabad municipality first as a member and then as a chairman. During his tenure as the chairman of the municipality, he took several significant steps for the sanitation and beautification of the town.
Impressed by Malaviyaji's excellent service, the district administration asked him to continue in the Municipal Board but after 1916, owing to his involvement in Banaras Hindu University, he resigned. The District Magistrate's report of the year 1916 reads: "We regret that the honourable Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya, a very old member of our board declined to seek re-election on the expiry of his term of three years…."