Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin on Sunday defended his government's move to replace the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter 'Ru' in the 2025-26 state budget. He said, "Interestingly, [Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman] herself used...Tamil letter instead of Re [for rupee] in English." "We had the 'Ru' to show how determined we are in the language policy," Stalin added.