Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar And Ashoka Dhamma Chakra.

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Ashoka Dhamma Chakra

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was instrumental for incorporating the wheel of Dhamma chakra or Ashoka Chakra in Navy Blue in the National Flag of India. To select Flag for Independent India, on 23rd June 1947 the Constituent Assembly of India set up an Ad hoc committee headed by Rajendra Prasad with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sarojini, Rajagopalachari and K. M. Munshi as its members. On 22 July 1947, the present form (Four Colours Viz., Saffron, White, Green and Navy Blue Chakra) of the National Flag of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly. The spinning wheel of the Congress Flag was replaced by the Chakra (Wheel) from the Lion Capital of Ashoka at its centre.

As a Member of Ad hoc committee on the National Flag Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar later explained, "Even though Buddhism is almost extinct in India, yet it has given birth to a culture, which is far better and richer than the Brahminic culture. When the question of the national flag and the national emblem was being considered by the Constituent Assembly we could not find any suitable symbol from the Brahminic culture. Ultimately, the Buddhist culture came to our rescue and we accepted the Wheel of Law (Dhamma-Chakra) as the national symbol."

Ambeth,
Dharmapuri,
Tamil Nadu.

Jai Bheem...!!!

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