India, March 14 -- The tussle over the three-language formula under the NEP with the Centre intensified as the Tamil Nadu government, led by MK Stalin, on Thursday replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget 2025-26. The move comes amidst a political firestorm over the issue after the Tamil Nadu government rejected the National Education Policy with chief minister MK Stalin accusing the Centre of trying to impose Hindi in the southern state under it and claimed that the NEP was a "saffron policy" aimed at promoting and developing Hindi and not the nation.

The DMK has asserted that Tamil Nadu would not tolerate 'Hindi colonialism' replacing British colonialism, while the Union government has accused...