Hyderabad: It seems that the identity of the designer of the Indian tricolour will remain a mystery forever.
The Union home minister has stated in response to an RTI query filed by this newspaper that the Constituent Assembly on July 22, 1947, adopted the Indian National Flag but doesn’t attribute the design of the national flag to any individual.
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It has also been made clear that it has no information about whether the flag was designed by Pingli Venkayya of Andhra Pradesh or Suraiya Tayyabji, wife of a civil servant in New Delhi, whose names generally come up in this context, or any other person. This newspaper had filed an RTI query with the ministry seeking information regarding who designed the national flag and when; and who approved the design.
