{"id":30738,"date":"2018-10-26T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30738"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:31:52","slug":"karnataka-govt-unveils-state-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/karnataka-govt-unveils-state-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka govt. unveils State flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/tp-andhrapradesh\/karnataka-govt-unveils-state-flag\/article22988631.ece\"><b>Karnataka govt. unveils State flag<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Karnataka government has unveiled the State flag ( nada dhwaja ) for Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Details:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If approved by the Centre, Karnataka will be the second State to have a flag after Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposal will be now sent to the Union Home Ministry for approval since a State has no powers to announce its own flag.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Backdrop:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government in Karnataka constituted a nine-member committee to design a state flag and look into the legalities of it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Cabinet had earlier approved the proposal of having separate flag for Karnataka<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Flag in Karnataka:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karnataka has had an unofficial flag since the mid 1960s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The red and yellow flag was created by Kannada writer and activist Ma Ramamurthy for a pro-Kannada political party called the Kannada Paksha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, there has been a demand to recognise it as the state&#8217;s official flag.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently unveiled the red-white-yellow flag has the State emblem at the centre<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Legal sanctity:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The existing legal provisions do not prohibit states from having their own flags<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked about the Constitutional provisions for a State to have its own flag, Karnataka CM said there was no bar in the Constitution on the States having their own flag.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka govt. unveils State flag Context: The Karnataka government has unveiled the State flag ( nada dhwaja ) for Karnataka. Details: If approved by the Centre, Karnataka will be the second State to have a flag after Jammu and Kashmir. The proposal will be now sent to the Union Home Ministry for approval since a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/karnataka-govt-unveils-state-flag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karnataka govt. unveils State flag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}