New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Gourav Vallabh on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, accusing his government of undermining the Indian Constitution by replacing the Devanagari-script rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for rupee in the state’s Budget documents.
Speaking to IANS, Vallabh said: “This act amounts to the neglect of the Indian Constitution. It also disregards the people of Tamil Nadu, considering that it was a Tamil who designed the official rupee symbol. Chief Minister Stalin seems unaware of this fact and is instead playing politics with India’s sovereignty.”
The Tamil Nadu government’s decision to replace the standard rupee symbol comes at a time when tensions between the state administration and the BJP-led Central government have escalated over the issue of “Hindi imposition”.
The DMK has been a vocal critic of the National Education Policy (NEP), which promotes a three-language formula that the party argues would force the adoption of Hindi in non-Hindi-speaking states. (IANS)
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