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Rh Gandhiji now decided to give India a flag of her own. So far the Union Jack, the flag of England, had been flown in India, but Gandhiji saw that now that India was fighting for her independence she must have a flag which would become the symbol of her fight. The

colors he chose for the flag were orange, white and green. Each one of these colors stood for something. The white stood for the minorities, the orange for the majority community, the Hindus, and the green for the Mohammedans. Right in the center of the flag there was a charkha or spinning wheel. Gandhiji believed that it was through the charkha that the poor