Further, Annamalai stated that DMK had become a laughing stock across the country and were doing this act just to divert attention from other pressing public issues.
The Finance Minister questioned DMK over the act and asked them why they did not protest back in 2010 when the symbol was officially adopted by the Indian National Congress.
Dharmalingam, a professor at IIT Guwahati, designed the iconic Indian rupee symbol 15 years ago, in 2010. It was chosen from among 3,300 entries in a nationwide competition. The design, which combines the Devanagari letter "Ra" and the Roman letter "R," has become an integral part of Indi
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Thursday met with a delegation of fishermen from Tamil Nadu, led by BJP state chief K Annamalai, in Delhi to discuss their concerns and explore sustainable solutions.
Reacting to replacement of the Rupee symbol for the Indian currency with the Tamil alphabet 'Ru' in the state budget logo, Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission Executive (SPCE) Vice Chairman J Jeyaranjan said that the only reason for the change was that they did not want Devnagari.
BJP's Tamil Nadu chief lashed out over the State Government's "stupid"move, stating that a Tamilian and son of a former DMK MLA designed the Rupee symbol.
Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai asserted that the party's signature campaign promoting the three-language policy would transform the fate of Tamil people.
The BJP's signature campaign receives over two lakh signatures in just 36 hours through their website puthiyakalvi.in. Annamalai also criticized CM Stalin on social media, accusing him of failing to carry out a signature campaign against NEET and calling his opposition to Hindi imposition
Tamilisai Soundararajan along with Annamalai and others were participating in the campaign questioning DMK's opposition of three-language policy under NEP.
Attacking CM Stalin on the issue, Annamalai said, "Having realised that the opposition to the three-language policy hasn't yielded support from the common people, Thiru MK Stalin has now jumped to the imaginary Hindi imposition."
The Tamil Nadu government has strongly opposed implementing the New Education Policy (NEP) of 2020, raising concern over the "three-language formula" and alleging that the Centre wants to 'impose' Hindi.
Earlier, the all-party meeting presided over by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin passed a resolution requesting PM Modi to give assurance in the parliament that if delimitation is done, it should be based on the 1971 population census.