Thread by @anujdhar

This is how our flag would have looked like, if Mahatma Gandhi had his way. Of course, Gandhi bhakts won't tell you this, so read on...

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@Sanjay_Dixit

#राष्ट्रीय_झंडा_अंगीकरण_दिवस #तिरंगा_दिवस
#FlagAdoptionDay #FlagDay #Tiranga #FlagDay

This day in 1947, the Tricolour was adopted as India's National Flag. But do you know that Mahatma Gandhi wanted a Union Jack in one corner of the new flag? Something like this flag design seen here which was proposed by our first Governor-General Lord Louis Mountbatten. 2/n

Gandhiji, unlike Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, was not an enemy of the Empire. He favoured Dominion Status under the British monarch (which we got in 1947), not Purna Swaraj, or complete freedom of India as Netaji strove for. 3/n

Subhas Bose's insistence on Purna Swaraj got him in trouble with the Gandhi camp. At that, he refused to accept the cult of ahimsa -- which has since then been accepted by the people and Govt of India. Bose was a heretic when viewed from that context, a misfit in India.
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People of India must be reminded of these stark facts because our Govt is run by Gandhi bhakts whose mission of life is to promote Gandhi bhakti world wide, especially in the West. Therefore, pls retweet.

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