Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive member N. Sivarajan kicked up a controversy by demanding that the party’s saffron flag be made Indian national flag in place of the Tricolour.

PALAKKAD: Inviting widespread outrage, likely to escalate political debate in days to come, veteran BJP leader and former National Council member N Sivarajan made a controversial call to replace ...

By allowing machine-made polyester flags, the BJP government has severed the strong link between khadi and Indian independence, and economic self-sufficiency and political liberation.

BJP leader N Sivarajan's remarks come against the backdrop of a row in Kerala over the use of the image of Bharat Mata astride a lion holding a saffron flag -- an image widely associated with the RSS.