Tamil Nadu on Thursday replaced the rupee symbol in promotional material for the 2025/26 state budget – which will be presented Friday morning – with a Tamil letter.
The decision to swap out the currency symbol comes amid the ruling DMK’s ferocious battle with the centre over the ‘imposition’ of Hindi via the three-language formula in the new National Education Policy.
There has been no communication from the Tamil Nadu government, so far, on this swap, but a BJP spokesperson told NDTV the move amounted to the Tamil party saying it is “different from India”.
The rupee symbol is common for India, Narayanan Thirupathy told NDTV.
Tamil Nadu on Thursday replaced the rupee symbol in promotional material for the 2025/26 state budget – which will be presented Friday morning – with a Tamil letter.
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