DMK leaders, during a launch of a series of public meetings titled 'Urimaigalai Meetka Stalinin Kural' (Stalin's voice to retrieve rights) across the 37 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat in Puducherry, also said the "bad days for BJP have started", as it welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the 2018 electoral bond scheme of political funding.
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