On 14 July 2006, after a long campaign against the merger, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna political party filed three separate petitions with the Supreme Court requesting a separate provincial council for the East. The thought of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam controlling this province, directly or indirectly, alarmed them greatly. The combined North-East Province occupied one fourth of Sri Lanka. The merger was bitterly opposed by Sri Lankan nationalists. ![]() However, the referendum was never held and successive Sri Lankan presidents issued proclamations annually extending the life of the "temporary" entity. ![]() The proclamations were only meant to be a temporary measure until a referendum was held in the Eastern Province on a permanent merger between the two provinces.
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