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Indian Flag: The Amendment To The Flag Code in India. 2002

The national flag of India is a horizontal tricolour of deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportions. In the center of the white band is a navy blue wheel with 24 spokes representing the Dharma Chakra. The colors represent courage and sacrifice (saffron), purity and truth (white), and faith and fertility (green). In 2002, an amendment was passed allowing Indian citizens to freely display the national flag, thanks to a petition by an industrialist who argued it was his fundamental right to express patriotism by flying the flag.

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Indian Flag: The Amendment To The Flag Code in India. 2002

The national flag of India is a horizontal tricolour of deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportions. In the center of the white band is a navy blue wheel with 24 spokes representing the Dharma Chakra. The colors represent courage and sacrifice (saffron), purity and truth (white), and faith and fertility (green). In 2002, an amendment was passed allowing Indian citizens to freely display the national flag, thanks to a petition by an industrialist who argued it was his fundamental right to express patriotism by flying the flag.

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Indian Flag

THE NATIONAL FLAG OF INDIA is in tricolour ( TIRANGA)


of deep saffron (Kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark
green at the bottom in equal proportions.

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The Indian flag is a horizontal tricolour in equal proportion of


deep saffron on the top, white in the middle and dark green at
the bottom. The ratio of the width to the length of the flag is two
is to three. In the centre of the white band, there is a wheel in
navy blue to indicate the Dharma Chakra, the wheel of law in the
Sarnath Lion Capital. This center symbol or the 'CHAKRA', is a
Buddhist symbol dating back to 200th century BC.

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Its diameter approximates the width of the white band and it has
24 spokes, which intends to show that there is life in movement
and death in stagnation. The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice
and the spirit of renunciation; the white, for purity and truth; the
green for faith and fertility. The design of the National Flag of
India was adopted by India's constituent assembly on 22nd july,
1947. It's use and display are regulated by a code. The flag
symbolizes freedom. The late Prime Minister Pandit Nehru called
it a flag not only of freedom for ourselves, but a symbol of
freedom for all people.

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The Amendment to the Flag code in India. 2002

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Indian flag code amendment: The 53rd Republic Day on January


26, 2002, was a very special day for Indians. Fifty-four years after
the tiranga was adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the
national flag, the citizens were free to hoist the Indian
flag thanks to a public interest petition filed by Navin Jindal, a
young industrialist from Madhya Pradesh, India .

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This amendment removed the restrictions which only allowed


government offices and higher functionaries of government to fly
the Indian flag freely.
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Before the amendent, the general public could do so only on a
few selected national days, eg. the Independence Day and
Republic Day of India.
The government's decision took place after a public interest
petition filed by Mr. Navin Jindal, an industrialist from Madhya
Pradesh, in the Delhi High Court. The case moved upto the
Supreme Court of India, which asked the government to set up a
committee to review Jindal's public interest petition .

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The Union cabinet of India approved an amendment to the


Indian flag code with some modifications and conditions
intended to safeguard the flags dignity, honour and respect.

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The courts found nothing unreasonable in the patriotic


justification by Mr. Jindal, who used to hoist the flag atop his
office. Earlier having done so and he found the flag confiscated
for apparently going against the flag code. Mr. Jindal argued that
flying his countries flag was indeed his fundamental right as an
Indian citizen, a way to express his love and faith.

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Finally the ban on display of Indian national flag by Indians was


lifted thanks to the Delhi high court and the supreme court, and
ofcourse Mr. Jindal. The Union cabinet approved an amendment
to the flag code with some modifications and conditions intended
to safeguard its dignity and honour. The landmark judgement to
the Indian Flag code came on 15th January, 2002.

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