Who was the actual designer of Indian National Flag?

Indians believe that Pingali Venkaiah designed the Indian National Flag. But the truth is that the current Indian National Flag had evolved over several decades of independence movement. Gandhi commissioned Pingali Venkayya to design a flag with the spinning wheel on a red and green banner in 1921.

AnEnglish historian Trevor Royle said “By one of those contradictions which run through India’s history, the national flag was designed by a Muslim, Badr-ud-Din Tyabji. Originally the tricolour was to have contained the spinning-wheel symbol (charka) used by Gandhi but this was a party symbol which Tyabji thought might strike the wrong note. After much persuasion Gandhi agreed to the wheel because the Emperor Ashoka was venerated by Hindu and Muslim alike. The flag which flew on Nehru’s car that night had been specially made by Tyabji’s wife.”
(Trevor Royle, The Last Days of the Raj, Cornet Books, Hodder and Stoughton, London, Page-217).

However, Jawaharlal Nehru explained that the change was more practical in nature, as unlike the flag with the spinning wheel, this design would appear symmetrical. Gandhi was not very pleased by the change, but eventually came around to accepting it.

The flag which was designed by Surayya Tayabji was proposed by Nehru at the Constituent Assembly on 22 July 1947.