Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag from which Indian national flag was adopted Pingali Venkaiah was born to Hanumantha Raidu and Venkat Ratnamma in Yarlagadda, Krishna district, near Machlipatnam in present day Andhra Pradesh. He belonged to a Telugu Brahmin family and he was the eldest of 6 brothers and 2 sisters. After finishing his schooling at Machlipatnam, he went to Colombo for further studies. During the National conference of the Indian National Congress at Kakinada, Venkayya suggested a new flag for the Indian National Congress. Gandhi suggested Venkayya to come up with a design. Venkayya proposed a tricolour with a spinning wheel in the middle. The design was the basis for the National Flag of India. The flags antecedents can be traced back to the Vande Mataram movement
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