Rupee symbol creator and former DMK MLA’s son distances himself from Tamil Nadu budget logo row
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Rupee symbol creator and former DMK MLA’s son distances himself from Tamil Nadu budget logo row

New Indian Express  

GUWAHATI: Hours after the Tamil Nadu government released a new rupee logo for the state budget, IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who had designed the Indian rupee symbol, on Thursday refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a DMK MLA. The DMK government in the southern state has replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26, which will be tabled in the Assembly on Friday. Kumar's father N Dharmalingam was an MLA from the Rishivandiyam constituency in 1971 from the DMK party, which is in power in Tamil Nadu presently. "It's just that he happened to be a DMK MLA and the DMK government changed the design.

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