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22/07/24 12:51 PM IST

National Flag Day

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  • India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru described the tricolour as a "Flag of freedom not only for ourselves, but a symbol of freedom to all people who may see it". 
Historical background
  • The  Constituent Assembly met in the Constituent Hall in New Delhi at 10 o’clock, with Dr Rajendra Prasad in the Chair.
  • The Constituent Assembly had been meeting since December 9, 1946, and had by then discussed a range of subjects.
  • The Chair announced that the first item on the agenda was “a Motion by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru about the Flag”.
  • Thereafter, India’s first Prime Minister rose to move the following Resolution: “Resolved that the National Flag of India shall be horizontal tricolour of deep Saffron (Kesari), white and dark green in equal proportion.
  • In the centre of the white band, there shall be a Wheel in navy blue to represent the Charkha.
  • The design of the Wheel shall be that of the Wheel (Chakra) which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Asoka.
  • The diameter of the Wheel shall approximate to the width of the white band.
  • The ratio of the width to the length of the Flag shall ordinarily be 2:3.”
  • At the end of the day, the record says, “The motion was adopted, the whole Assembly standing.”
Flag Resolution
  • The Flag defined by the Resolution, Nehru said, “was adopted, not by a formal resolution, but by popular acclaim and usage, adopted much more by the sacrifice that surrounded it in the past few decades”, and that the Constituent Assembly was “in a sense only ratifying that popular adoption”.
  • This Flag…is not…a Flag of Empire, a Flag of Imperialism, a Flag of domination over any body, but a Flag of freedom not only for ourselves, but a symbol of freedom to all people who may see it,” Nehru said. “…Wherever it may go…it will bring a message, I hope, of freedom to those people, a message of comradeship, a message that India wants to be friends with every country of the world and India wants to help any people who seek freedom…”
Source- Indian Express

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