Indian National Congress Flag

Facts about the Flag of Indian National Congress Flag

1. The flag of the Indian National Congress, founded in 1885 and the party that led the independence movement.
2. The flag belongs to Indian National Congress. It is used in India.
3. It was founded on 28 December 1885 by A. O. Hume, with Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Wacha.
4. It is based in New Delhi.
5. The flag was adopted in 1951.
6. The design is 75 years old as of 2026.
7. Construction: Horizontal tricolour with a spinning wheel.
8. It is normally drawn to a ratio of 2:3, which makes it rectangular.
9. The flag uses 4 colours: saffron, white, green and blue.
10. The saffron stands for courage and sacrifice.
11. The white stands for peace and truth.
12. The green stands for faith and prosperity.
13. The blue stands for the charkha.
14. Charkha: The spinning wheel of the Gandhian swadeshi movement, the party’s emblem before independence.
15. It is one of the oldest political parties in the world and led the Indian independence movement; the tricolour it flew was the direct ancestor of the Indian national flag, with the charkha replaced by the Ashoka Chakra in 1947.
16. It is filed here under Political Party Flags, one of the categories of flag that belong to no country.