SHIVAMOGGA: Former Karnataka minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader
KS Eshwarappa
on Sunday said that
'Bhagwa Dhwaj'
(saffron flag) would become the national flag in the future.
Speaking to reporters, he said the 'Bhagwa Dhwaj' is a symbol of renunciation which has been used in India for centuries.
"We place it before us in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and pray daily to promote the concept of renunciation. I have no doubt that it will become our national flag one day," he said.
According to him, the Indian tricolor is recognised as the national flag by the Constitution, which the BJP is extending respect as needed. Congress has no moral right to teach us a lesson about our National flag, he added.
Eshwarappa said there was a plot to ban the RSS during the regimes of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But it failed.
When the former PMs could not ban the RSS, what can the opposition leader Siddaramaiah and the KPCC chief DK Shivakumar do to the RSS, he said.
He asserted that viewing the top brass of the RSS by their caste was flawed. They all are Hindus, he said.
He asked senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge to apologise for addressing the RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in singular.