Andhra Leader Minister Seeks Bharat Ratna Award For Dressmaker Of Indian Flag
Andhra Pradesh Leader Minister felicitated Ghantasala Sitamahalakshmi, daughter of Pingali Venkaiah.
Amaravati:
Andhra Pradesh Leader Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday instructed the Centre to confer the Bharat Ratna upon Pingali Venkaiah who designed the Nationwide Flag, posthumously.
He additionally felicitated Ghantasala Sitamahalakshmi, daughter of overdue Venkaiah, marking the inauguration of the 75-week-long “Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav” within the state.
The Leader Minister offered Rs 75 lakh to Sitamahalakshmi and wrote to Top Minister Narendra Modi asking for that the Centre confer the best civilian award Bharat Ratna on Venkaiah posthumously.
“Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav” birthday party is a central govt initiative to mark 75 years of Independence.
Pingali Venkaiah, from Krishna district, designed the Nationwide Flag and offered it to Mahatma Gandhi all over his discuss with to Vijayawada town on April 1, 1921.
On July 22, 1947, the Constituent Meeting followed the flag designed by way of Pingali Venkaiah because the Nationwide Tricolour.
“The flag designed by way of him got here to be synonymous with the spirit of loose and unbiased India. Alternatively, his lifestyles and works in large part stay unrecognised,” the Leader Minister identified within the letter to the Top Minister.
“It’s on this mild I request you to confer Bharat Ratna (posthumously) upon Sri Pingali Venkaiah that will no longer handiest bequeath peace on his parted soul but additionally satisfy the aspirations of the folk of Andhra Pradesh,” Mr Reddy stated.
That will be a “deserving acknowledgment” to the lifestyles and contribution of overdue Sri Pingali Venkaiah, the Leader Minister added.
Mr Reddy, who visited Macherla the city the place Sitamahalakshmi was once now staying, garlanded the bust of Mahatma Gandhi and inspected a photograph exhibition at the lifestyles and works of Pingali Venkaiah.
He felicitated her and different family members and passed over a duplicate of the Executive Order granting an award of Rs 75 lakh whilst the quantity was once immediately credited into her checking account.
Pingali Venkaiah’s daughter offered the biography of her father to the Leader Minister.
She recalled the day when her father passed over the Nationwide Flag to Mahatma Gandhi in Vijayawada. “He additionally offered me to the Mahatma,” she recalled.
Previous, Particular Leader Secretary (Tourism and Tradition) Rajat Bhargava interacted with Sitamahalakshmi and different family members and defined the quite a lot of occasions being deliberate for the “Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav” celebrations within the state.
Within the night time, Krishna district Collector A Md Imtiyaz led a rally in Vijayawada town to mark the inauguration of the development. Cultural programmes had been arranged in Tirupati and Visakhapatnam towns as smartly.
