State government approves new flag design, to seek approval from Centre

Bengaluru: CM Siddaramaiah held a meeting with pro-kannada organizations’ members and leaders to discuss on the new flag which has been designed by the nine-member committee.

Kannada litterateurs, pro-Kannada activists approved the new flag design which consists of yellow, white and red, and bears the official Karnataka state insignia ‘Gandaberunda’ (coat of arms of the erstwhile Mysuru kingdom).

The state government will send the details of the flag to the central government, following which it will be announced as the flag of Karnataka.

In 2017, the Congress-led Karnataka government had set up a nine-member committee to design the state flag. The panel had later submitted a report to the Siddaramaiah government on the state flag getting legal sanctity.