Friday, March 21, 2008

tricolour-the indian national flag


The kind and urgent intervention of the Honorable Chief Justice Of India and His Companion Judges is most humbly sought towards upholding the sanctity of the Indian National Flag. The Indian National Congress of 1885 founded by AO Hume and succeeded later by us Indians in the struggle for democracy, the flag represented in tri-colour represented the movement of the masses. Orange for Hinduism, green for Islam and white preaching unity and peace, the charkha pleaded for self sufficiency.Md. Ali jinnah prior to the establishment of the Muslim League was asmuch a constituent of the INC.Its adoption however as the National Flag on 22nd July 1947 was the result of the fruition of efforts of the ad-hoc committee comprised of leaders as Abdul Kalam Azad, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, Dr.Rajendra Prasad and the others entrusted with the task of designing the national flag. Motion passed in the Constituent Assembly Of India, post declaration, the tri-colour was adopted. Explained by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, bhagwa or saffron symbolized renunciation of disinterestedness, white; light, the path of truth to guide our conduct and green as the soil, the plant life on which all life depends. The Ashoka wheel or the wheel of Dharma replaced the charkha and the National Flag accordingly accorded the nation’s spirit. The INC witnessing a split post 1967 with the leadership challenged by the majority, late Indira Gandhi launched a separate congress named Congress (R), the original INC merging with the Janata Party. The Congress (R) christened Congress (I) pursuant to order passed by the Election Commission still used the tri-colour with the insertion of a hand as its official flag. It is an almost replica of the National Flag and undermines not only the nation’s identity but mocks our institutions, the populace, its aspirations and our laws. The Prevention Of Insults To National Honour Act 1971 in explanation 4, clearly stipulates disrespect to the Indian National Flag to mean and include putting any kind of inscription upon the Indian National Flag while in the Schedule of The Emblem And Names (Prevention Of Improper Use) Act 1950, The Indian National Flag , Any such insignia and The Dharma Chakra have been duly sanctified towards protection against misuse by vested interests. The corporatisation of politics, if not offices of profit should surely sound the death knell and pave our degeneration to the grave. The write up seeking treatment as public interest litigation, with the same evolved from its stage of infancy of Social Interest Litigation by the Honourable Justice Bhagwati who this Republic Day has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan, any the less would be a misnomer.
write-up filed in the honourable supreme court of india seeking treatment as a public interest litigation.

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