'Regional chauvinism': Finance minister Sitharaman slams MK Stalin for dropping rupee symbol in Tamil Nadu budget logo

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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman criticized Tamil Nadu's CM MK Stalin for removing the rupee symbol from the state budget's logo, labeling it as an act of regional chauvinism. The Tamil Nadu government replaced the symbol to oppose the Centre's three-language policy under NEP, intensifying the ongoing language dispute.

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Nirmala Sitharaman

Indian economist and politician (born 1959)
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Tamil Nadu

State in southern India
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M. K. Stalin

12th and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
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Title for the head of government of some countries' administrative divisions
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