The government's decision is not a political move, but necessary move to prevent people from being insulted because of caste name -D.Ravikumar

Member of Parliament D. Ravikumar said the government decision was not a political move, but a necessary move to prevent people from being insulted because of caste names. “It was former Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran who first issued a G.O. to drop caste names from street names in 1978. It was implemented at that time, but then slowly people forgot about it and the caste names started reappearing,” he said.

In 2018, the Madras High Court directed the government to implement that order. “When the DMK government came to power in 2021, our party had again represented that caste names be removed from street names as they are being included in Aadhar cards and passports and the caste identity of people is being spread across the globe,” he said.