Why karnataka flag

Speaking to HT, Bheemappa Gadad, an RTI activist, said the reason for such a demand was because some people in the district felt there was a need to assert that the region belonged to Karnataka.

The district has a large number of Marathi speakers and a local party, the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti, has been at the forefront of the demand to make the district a part of Maharashtra. The proposal for having such a flag is not new. In his Budget speech in , then chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda had said that the Kannada flag, which is made up of strips of red and yellow, would be hoisted atop all government buildings next to the national flag on November 1, which is the state formation day.

However, later that year, while replying to a public interest litigation petition calling for a flag code for the Kannada flag, the Bharatiya Janata Party retracted its decision saying a separate state flag would undermine the sanctity of the national flag. According to film critic MK Raghavendra, who has written extensively about Kannada identity, the recent developments are just attempts to build a broader identity base for the Congress.

Although it has not been accorded an official state flag status, it is no less than that. Now, that the Siddaramaiah government has formed a panel to design the flag to officially accord it a legal status, it is necessary to know who designed the Yellow and Red flag, that is proudly hoisted on every galli during Rajyotsava. Ma Ramamurthy, son of freedom fighter and litterateur Veerakesari Seetharama Shastri, was the first to have conceptualised and designed the Yellow and Red flag for Karnataka.

Ramamurthy was born on March 11 in at Nanjangud. He began his career as a journalist, and he was an editor of a newspaper, 'Kannada Yuvajana'.

It was in those days when non-Kannadigas were preferred in Karnataka above Kannadigas, and this forced the writers and intellectuals to come together to protect the interests of Karnataka. The state government sent a proposal to the Union government requesting for the approved design of the Karnataka flag to be included in the schedule of the Emblems and Names Prevention of Misuse Act, Since the proposal was sent just before the Assembly elections, it was dubbed a political gimmick to pander to parochial sentiments and detractors even called it a secessionist move.

After the elections, consecutive governments, headed by HD Kumaraswamy and then BS Yediyurappa did not pursue the proposal with the Union government, which had kept it pending.

In August , the Yediyurappa government decided to drop the proposal formally. The Constitution committee headed by Dr BR Ambedkar directed that we have only one flag — the tricolour. There may be cultural flags. Karnataka also has a cultural flag. The Kannada flag, which is divided into two equal horizontal stripes, a yellow strip for the top half and a red strip below, could become the official state flag of Karnataka.

Currently, Jammu and Kashmir, which has special status under Article of the Constitution, is the only state in the country that has the permission to have its own flag. Also Read - Travelling by Buses in Karnataka? Don't Forget to Carry a set of Earphones. Here's Why.