Black flags, burning ‘Bills’: Why Stalin casts delimitation protest as reigniting ‘flames of resistance’ in Tamil Nadu

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin protested the proposed delimitation exercise by hoisting black flags and burning a representational Bill copy in Namakkal. Stalin called it a "black law" and urged households and shops statewide to fly black flags for three days. He invoked Tamil Nadu's anti-Hindi agitation history, comparing delimitation to past resistance movements. Southern states fear population-based seat redistribution could reduce their parliamentary representation. Stalin frames the dispute as constitutional fairness.

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