Chennai: According to reports, the Tamil Nadu government is expected to introduce a bill seeking to ban the use of Hindi across the state, with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin likely to present the proposal on the final day of the ongoing Assembly session. The reported legislation aims to prohibit Hindi-language hoardings and films in Tamil Nadu.

Earlier this year, the state government had replaced the Indian rupee symbol ‘₹’ with the Tamil letter ‘ரூ’ in its budget documents, an initiative seen as part of its broader effort to promote Tamil in official use. The move also reignited debates on the use of regional languages in governance and reflected the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) consistent opposition to what it describes as the “imposition” of Hindi.

Chief Minister Stalin has often s

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