the all india congress committee during a meeting at vijayawada then bezwada in 1921 the flag was prepared by the andhra pradesh youth having only two colours green and red it was here in the meeting gandhiji suggested addition of the white colour to represent other communities of india he also suggested to use chakra to represent the progress of the country in 1931 the suggestions made by gandhiji were incorporated in the flag his spinning wheel charkha was used in the middle of the flag ie on the white strip while orange and green colour are used in the top and bottom strip of the flag the final version of the flag came into existence on july 22 1947 as it was adopted by the constituent assembly in the version of the flag only one change was made the spinning wheel was replaced by the ashoka chakra or dharma chakra the chakra depicted the wheel of the law it has 24 blue spokes