Pingali Venkayya was first designed the National flag (Swaraj flag).

_{On March 31, 1921, Pingali Venkayya, a freedom fighter, presented a draft design of the swaraj flag (Indian national flag) to Mahatma Gandhi at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) session in Bezwada (now Vijayawada). His flag design originally had two colors (red and green), but later a white stripe and the spinning wheel (Charkha) were added.}