India, March 14 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party, along with other opposition parties, walked out of the Tamil Nadu assembly during the state Budget 2025-26 in protest the DMK government's move to replace the rupee symbol.

BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan wore a black dress in the assembly as a sign of protest before eventually walking out. She said, "The walkout is on two issues. The first is that the ED has issued a statement about the financial irregularities of estimating thousands of crores... This government has lost its credibility in presenting its budget today."

On the political uproar surrounding chief minister MK Stalin's decision to change the rupee symbol to a Tamil alphabet, she said, "Yesterday, the CM posted the removal of the ru...