Tamil Nadu<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The decision to swap out the currency symbol comes amid the ruling DMK’s ferocious battle with the centre over the ‘imposition’ of Hindi<\/a> via the three-language formula in the new National Education Policy.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

The rupee symbol is common for India, Narayanan Thirupathy told NDTV.<\/p>\n

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