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Chennai: Tamil Nadu on Thursday replaced the rupee symbol (Re) in promotional material for the 2025/26 state budget – which will be presented Friday morning – with a Tamil letter (Ru).
Posters for last year’s budget included the Re symbol.
The change was highlighted after Chief Minister MK Stalin shared the new logo on X.
The decision to swap out the currency symbol comes amid the ruling DMK’s battle with the BJP-led centre over ‘Hindi imposition’ via the new National Education Policy’s three-language push.
There has been no formal notice from the Tamil Nadu government, so far, on this swap.
However, DMK leader Saravanan Annadurai told a news outlet “there is nothing illegal about it… this is not a ‘showdown’. We prioritise Tamil… that is why the government went ahead with this”.
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