Flag of the Romani people censorship to read "Gypsy flags" ("banderitas gitanas"). Suspicions that the tricolor's prominently displayed red stood for communism led some activists to promote a green-blue bicolor with a red flame or wheel instead of the stripe. The wheel variant was the basis for the design recognized by the WRC in 1971. The ultimate design is attributed to an Indian Romologist, Weer Rajendra Rishi. Specifications were also adopted at that meeting, basing the wheel itself on the "Ashoka Chakra", as used in the flag of India. The decision to include "something Indian" on the flag was generally popular, reflecting in part Rishi's
R. Ashoka R. Ashoka R. Ashoka is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. He was one of the Deputy Chief ministers of the state in the BJP government headed by Jagadish Shettar from 2012 to 2013. Hailing from the dominant Vokkaliga community, He represents the Padmanabhanagar constituency of Bangalore city in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. During Emergency (1975–77), he was arrested and detained in prison along with senior leaders like L.K. Advani at the Central Jail in Bengaluru. He was first elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in the 1997 by-Elections from Uttarahalli Constituency, which was the biggest state