Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has ordered that country's elections commissioner to fix an immediate date for provincial council elections in the restive east. His order comes in the wake of Monday's successful local elections in the area in which the defectors of the Tamil Tiger rebels have won 8 out of 9 local councils with the collaboration of the ruling political party. But the United National Party, the main opposition party, gathered opposite the election office in Colombo to condemn the local poll in the east, and urged the government not to hold provincial elections there. FSRN's Ponniah Manikavasagam has the story.