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Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani revealed that India would extend the ban on the LTTE for two more years after the present ban period expires next month. Minister Advani has disclosed this to opposition Janata Party President Dr. Subramaniam Swamy. Dr. Swamy had called on him on Friday and demanded that the ban be further extended on the group responsible for the brutal assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi nine years ago. Dr. Swamy in a statement has said that the growing connection between Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the narcotics trade, and the Indian Supreme Court's judgement against the LTTE in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case demands a continuation of the ban. The Janata Party leader also raised the question of executing the death sentence on four of the LTTE cadres convicted for murdering Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally in Sriperumbudur near Chennai (Madras) in may 1991. However, Advani had pointed out that the central government is still awaiting the Tamil Nadu cabinet's resolution confirming that state governor's rejection of the convict's mercy petition. Dr. Swamy revealed that he has requested Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi to send his cabinet's resolution on the subject to the centre immediately. The LTTE was banned in India for two years for the first time in May 1992, one year after it was implicated in the Rajiv gandhi assassination. The ban has since been extended in 1994, 1996 and in 1998 for an additional two-year period on each occasion.
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