India, March 13 -- Amid controversy over Tamil Nadu's omission of the official Rupee symbol on its state budget document, IIT Guwahati professor, Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, the icon's designer said he never expected such a controversy after so many years.

A huge row erupted on Thursday after Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin posted a video on the state budget on X.

In the state budget logo, the national currency symbol has been substituted with the Tamil Alphabet 'Ru. ' State Planning Commission defended the move, saying the design was made as the official Rupee symbol represented the Devanagari script.

Dharmalingam designed the Indian rupee symbol in 2010. It was chosen from among 3,300 entries in a nationwide competition. The design...