Kannada Rakshana Vedike writes to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister appreciating decision to opt for Tamil letter ரூ instead of ₹ symbol in budget
The Hindu
The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26 tabled in the Assembly on March 14.
Kannada Rakshana Vedike (Ka.Ra.Ve), an organisation often at the forefront of language agitations in Karnataka, has written to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin appreciating his decision to replace the Devanagari script rupee symbol, which has been officially used by the Union Government of India for the last 16 years, with the Tamil script rupee symbol in Tamil Nadu.
The letter called Dravidian movement of Tamil Nadu ‘the pride of the entire South Indian Dravidian speakers’. and said that it was imperative for all southern States to unitedly struggle for the survival of Dravidian languages and follow the example of Tamil Nadu.
The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26 tabled in the Assembly on March 14.
“As a proud Indian and a Kannadiga, I wholeheartedly welcome this step and congratulate you on this bold move. Whatever criticisms and resistances may come your way, this symbolic resistance you have put up to the continuous attempts of the North Indians to impose Hindi is truly commendable,” said Ka.Ra.Ve. president T.A. Narayana Gowda on on March 15.
“The Union Government and the Hindi profiteers of North India are continuously imposing or forcing Hindi on crores of non-Hindi speakers of the entire country in various ways under the pretext of making it the ‘national language’. They are imposing the three-language formula and strangling other Indian languages. The imposition of Hindi is also being done through the National Education Policy (NEP) implemented by the Central Government.”
He described as ‘most shameful’ the ‘disrespect’ shown by the Union Government led by Narendra Modi towards State governments that have tried to maintain autonomy in education by not accepting the NEP. “The pressure tactics they are using are an insult to the democratic principles enshrined in our Constitution,” the letter states.
The delimitation, or re-division of constituencies, planned in 2026 will become ‘a political death sentence’ for the southern States. “They are displaying a dictatorial attitude without paying any attention to the requests made by their government and other South Indian governments to the Centre in this regard.”
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