Chennai, March 22 -- Even as the first Joint Committee meeting on delimitation called by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin got underway, Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai led a black flag protest outside the meeting venue. The BJP was protesting the stand taken by Karnataka on the Mekkadatu dam issue and the Kerala Governments stand on the Mullaperiyar dam and demanded that CM Stalin take up these issues first.

Annamalai also pointed out that despite the pressing issues in Tamil Nadu, the CM had never visited Kerala to discuss matters with the neighboring state. Instead, Stalin had invited Kerala's Chief Minister to discuss an "artificial issue" related to delimitation.

"TN CM has never gone to Kerala to speak with them and solve t...