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Request received to merge articles: Thenmozhi Rajaratnam into Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi; dated July 2016. Discussion here. Richard3120 (talk) 22:28, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it has been done by an IP. See Diff1 and Diff2. The attribution templates needs to be placed though. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:48, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Placed the attribution templates. See diff1 and diff2 --Lemongirl942 (talk) 17:51, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I've just been reading a few things on India, having been there in the past, and hoping to go there after COVID settles down. I'm an Australian and English is my 1st language. I just want to improve the flow of the text. I don't think got or get should be used in formal English.

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Sikh involvement

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The Sikh involvement was previously included in this article but has now been removed. It was well sourced and no clear reason was given for its removal. If there is no objection I shall restore the information. What are other people’s thoughts? Should the information be restored or not? CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 16:54, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If there is no disagreement then I will ahead with the proposed changes. CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 22:48, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What are your proposed changes? — DaxServer (t · m · c) 07:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restoring previous version by reverting the latest edit. CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 08:19, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide quotes from the source to support your text — DaxServer (t · m · c) 11:52, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All sources used are available on the internet archive or by a simple google search. If you cannot find them I will provide links.

"J&K, LTTE and Punjab ultras spoke of a plan to assassinate Rajiv." From Rajiv Gandhi killing: Jain Commission investigates likelihood of wider conspiracy

“So Mahant went and met Jagjit Singh Chauhan on the December 26th 1990 who took him to the Khalistani Headquarters in London. There, around 10-12 people were seated including allegedly belonging to the Babbar Khalsa (a Sikh militant organization), militants from the LTTE, the JKLF and a few other organizations. Jagjit reportedly told Mahant that he was going to eliminate Rajiv Gandhi in Delhi and that Chandraswami would be financing the assassination… Further to this, immediately after the assassination on the May 22nd 1991, Mahant from Punjabi Bhawan had spoken to Jagjit who confirmed that he was the person responsible for Rajiv's assassination. On the basis of this telephonic conversation, Mahant had written a letter to the President of India mentioning that it was the Sikh militants who had been responsible for Rajiv's assassination.” From Stranger than Fiction: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination

“During their conversation, Chauhan told him about his role in RG’s assassination and said that he had got him killed… It would mean that LTTE and Khalistan militants had co- ordination and it was a joint conspiracy which was executed by LITE… The above intelligence reports emanating from RAW clearly make the picture that, after the Indo-Sri Lankan agreement, both the militant outfits, LTTE and Khalistani, were interacting with each other and their common target was Rajiv Gandhi.” From Rajiv Gandhis Assassination The Mystery Unfolds

Jain Commission report observed on page 119 vide para 3.63 of vol Il:

“The information conveyed through this telegram no doubt nowhere states that there was any collaboration between the LTTE or Khalistan militants, but both have been named in the information emanating from Mr. Yasser Arafat and if this information is read along with Indian intelligence reports and the above press release, an inference may arise that both of them may have joined in targeting Sh. Rajiv Gandhi.”

”According to July 1995 testimony received by the Jain Commission inquiry into the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Khalistani (Sikh separatist) leader Jagjit Singh Chauhan reported that the LTTE and the Khalistani Liberation Force were co-conspirators in the assassination plot against Rajiv Gandhi.” From Terrorism is Comes from Us by Barathkumar PKT CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 13:54, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The first one is a quote from a political leader. The second one Stranger than Fiction is WP:SPS, let's not get into that. The fourth - Jain Commission report - please provide secondary sources that deduce and support your text. Third and fifth, I don't have access to them to read thru the entire context, so no comments. I'm searching for the credentials of the authors, but not very successful.

I'm going to question the veracity in your claims. There're more than a thousand high quality sources on RG assassination (JSTOR and Google Scholar each). When I search explicitly for "rajiv gandhi assassination AND khalistani", I got only a handful of results - almost all of them are bad search results and thus are not valid. — DaxServer (t · m · c) 16:50, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Third one is found here https://archive.org/details/rajiv-gandhis-assassination-the-mystery-unfolds-by-ramesh-dalal-z-lib.org CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 17:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Like I asked at the end above, please provide other sources which corroborate your text, which apparently don't exist from my initial search. — DaxServer (t · m · c) 18:54, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found a many more sources news sources, but it seems Sikh involvement is more of just a theory than a fact. CanadianSingh1469 (talk) 12:56, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]