Edited sentence: Also, on the request of  President J.Colombo agreed to a devolution of power to the provinces the Sri Lankan troops were to withdraw to their barracks in the north, the Tamil rebels were to disarm.However, the LTTE boycotted the elections that were held in October and November 1988 along the lines outlined in the accord.Jayewardene, India was to send a contingent, the IPKF, to Northern Sri Lanka as a peace keeping force.The Indian administration had not expected opposition from the Tigers and was initially taken unaware.The LTTE, who had enjoyed support from India till then however, agreed to the truce only reluctantly.The Tigers had rejected the Provincial Council framework as inadequate and Prabhakaran had protested against the Indian military intervention.The Tigers resisted the spread what was deemed India's self-serving aim of binding Sri Lanka into India's geo political sphere of Influence, as well as a symapthy for Sri Lanka's ruling Sinhala community in India outside the support-base in Tamil Nadu.The opposition to the induction of Indian troops soon flared into active confrontation.The signing of the Indo-Sri-Lankan accord on 29 July 1987 brought a temporary truce to the Sri Lankan Civil War.The support for Tamil Nationalism in India also raised the spectre to the Indian Govt.Under the terms of the agreement,.With the induction of the Indian troops, the Tigers initially complied by surrendering arms along the terms of the truce.of a possible situation of Tamil secessionist movement in Tamil Nadu However, faced with growing diligence from her erst-while partner, India adopted a stragy of aiding alternative Tamil power bases, including the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, which had emerged strongly in the November 1988 elections, and at the same time continue negotiations with the LTTE