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DMK president M.K. Stalin spearheaded a statewide black flag protest condemning the AIADMK government for subjecting consumers across Tamil Nadu to excessive and arbitrary electricity bill charges during the lockdown period. Waving black flags and raising slogans outside his residence, Stalin gave voice to the widespread anguish of millions of citizens who received inflated power bills calculated without physical meter readings, effectively penalizing families already coping with economic stagnation and severe wage losses.

Stalin asserted that rather than offering financial concessions or calculating power consumption on a fair pro-rata basis, the state electricity utility pushed consumers into higher tariff slabs, extracting excessive payments from middle-class households and small business establishments. He criticized the ruling dispensation for maintaining an indifferent attitude toward public hardship while spending lavishly on political advertisements. Stalin pointed out that democratic leadership requires alleviating citizens economic burdens during public emergencies, not exacerbating them through administrative extortion.

Stalin affirmed that the protest reflected the unified determination of Tamil society to reject oppressive utility burdens. He demanded an immediate recalculation of all lockdown electricity bills and the provision of meaningful tariff subsidies for distressed families.