CHENNAI, Aug. 10 -- Senior Congress leader and former Union home minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said Tamil Nadu lost an opportunity to announce to the world that there is a consensus regarding delimitation, referring to the absence of the opposition parties in the meeting of state MPs called by chief minister C Joseph Vijay.

Various parties including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), boycotted the meeting called by the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Saturday, dismissing it as "unnecessary". The meeting explored the possibilities of delimitation's impact on Tamil Nadu as the Centre might conduct a special session in the Parliament on delimitation.

"It saddened me that the ...