Flag of India However, Jawaharlal Nehru explained that the change was more practical in nature, as unlike the flag with the spinning wheel, this design would appear symmetrical. Gandhi was not very pleased by the change, but eventually came around to accepting it. The flag was proposed by Nehru at the Constituent Assembly on 22 July 1947 as a horizontal tricolour of deep saffron, white and dark green in equal proportions, with the Ashoka wheel in blue in the centre of the white band. Nehru also presented two flags, one in Khadi-silk and the other in Khadi-cotton, to the assembly. The resolution was
Flag of India at Central Park, Connaught Place of Connaught Circus in pre-independent India was the veteran freedom fighter Mir Mushtaq Ahmad who would raise the flag and demand the end of British rule in what was then considered the heart of British imperialism in India. Flag of India at Central Park, Connaught Place Tiranga, the national flag of India was hoisted for the first time on 7 March 2014 at Central Park, Connaught Place. At the time it was the longest and largest Indian flag in the world. This title was later claimed by Indian flags at Cuttack followed by at Mumbai, Bhopal, Pune, Raipur, Hyderabad, Ranchi,