CHENNAI, April 17 -- The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA), along with its coalition partners staged a protest across Tamil Nadu on Thursday by raising black flags and burning copies of the Centre's proposed delimitation bill.

Leading the proceedings, DMK President MK Stalin clad in black shirt and trousers, raised a black flag and also burnt the copy of the delimitation bill at the residence of a party functionary in Namakkal.

In his official social media account later on Thursday, he wrote, "Let the fire of opposition spread throughout Tamil Nadu. Let the arrogance of fascist BJP fall."

"Today, I have ignited another fire by burning a copy of the Black Law that makes Tamils refugees in their own ...