Constituent Assembly Debates Tuesday 22nd July 1947 Official Report

If you see the other side of the Flag the spindle comes the other way and the wheel comes this way ; if it does not do so it is not proportionate because the wheel must be towards the pole not towards the end of the Flag. [...] be inserted in the Motion : `That inside the Chakra in the centre of the white band the Swastika the ancient Indian symbol of Shantarn Shivam Sundaram be inseeribed.' When I sent in the amendment I had not seen the design of the Flag. [...] That stands for the fact that the World belongs not to the wealthy not to the prospeous btit to the meek and the humble the dedicated and the detached. [...] Although the Charkha was the emblem of our self-help and of our approach to the common masses and was embodied in our activities by the message of the Mahatma yet towards the later stage the ideal of Charkha had been polluted the instruction or inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi had been deviated from and those' who wore the Charkha which was the symbol of non-violence were most violent in their acti [...] I need only remind those who do me the honour of listening to me of the name of the late Kaka Baptist of Bombay of the late K. C. Bannerjee of Bengal of the late Bishop Chidambaram of the United Provinces and the late Dr.