An Indian remote service representative denied any removal and said that exchanges were standard choices. Rajapaksa, voted out of office in the Jan 8 race, told Reuters he didn't know all the truths while the new government in Colombo has said it is mindful of the reports yet can't affirm them.
At the same time a few sources in both Colombo and New Delhi said India was asked to review the operators in December for helping accumulate help for joint restriction applicant Maithripala Sirisena in the wake of inducing him to jettison Rajapaksa's bureau.
A scrappy report in Sri Lanka's Sunday Times daily paper on December 28 said that "connections with the regular restriction" had expense India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) station boss his occupation in Colombo.
India has regularly been included in the inner governmental issues of the little island country off its southern coast - it sent troops there in 1987 in a bungled push to representative peace between the administration and Tamil Tiger rebels.
Rajapaksa's sudden annihilation after two terms in office corresponded with becoming concern in India that it was losing impact in Sri Lanka on account of the previous president's tilt to local adversary China.
The worry turned to alert toward the end of last year when Rajapaksa permitted two Chinese submarines to dock in Sri Lanka without cautioning New Delhi as he ought to have under a standing assention, the sources said.
Sirisena, the new president, has said he will visit New Delhi on his first outside outing one month from now and has said India is the "to begin with, principle concern" of his remote arrangement.
An Indian official said the RAW operators was reviewed after protestations that he had worked with Sri Lanka's normally irritable restriction gatherings to concur on a joint contender for the decision. At that point, he was blamed for encouraging gatherings to energize a few officials, among them Sirisena, to abandon from Rajapaksa's gathering, the authority said.
The specialists was blamed for assuming a part in persuading the primary pioneer of the restriction and previous head administrator Ranil Wickremasinghe not to challenge against Rajapaksa in the race and stand aside for somebody who could make sure of winning, said the officer and a Sri Lankan official who likewise keeps up close contacts with India.
The operators was likewise in contact with previous president Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was a key player in persuading Sirisena to stand, said the officer and the administrator, who additionally affirmed that the specialists had been asked to clear out.
"They effectively were included, conversing with Ranil, getting those things sorted out, conversing with Chandrika," the official told Reuters.
"CERTAIN THINGS YOU Don't TALK ABOUT"
Wickremasinghe, who is presently PM again in Sirisena's legislature, met "a few times" with the man recognized as the operators in the months prior to the vote, and also with the Indian high magistrate, or diplomat, the leader's representative said.
"They examined the current political circumstance," Wickremasinghe's representative said, however he denied that the Indians had prompted him. "He doesn't know whether he exhorted other politicians."it was not clear if Wickremasinghe was mindful at the time that he was meeting with a knowledge official. India's RAW officers are typically given political presents when doled out on outside missions.
Previous president Kumaratunga did not react to demands for input.
Rajapaksa declined to affirm the contribution of India in the battle against him.
"I don't have the foggiest idea, I won't suspect anyone until I get my genuine truths," he said at his gathering base camp.
"There are sure things you don't discuss," a nearby partner of the Rajapaksa family said, yet included that "there were clear indications of a profound battle by outside components."
Sri Lanka's then barrier secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa - a sibling of the previous president - grumbled about the specialists' exercises to Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in November when Doval was going by the island country for a resistance class, the Indian official said.
An alternate Indian official, who screens the area for security dangers, said New Delhi had been viewing Beijing's developing impact and overwhelming interests in Sri Lanka under Rajapaksa, who went by China seven times since getting to be president in 2005.
In any case India was dazed and irate a year ago when the Chinese submarines docked in Sri Lanka on two different events, a step New Delhi saw as a major aspect of Beijing's "pearl necklace" system to secure a decent footing in South Asia and oceanic get to through the Indian Ocean.
"The defining moment in the relationship was the submarines. There was genuine displeasure," the Indian security official said.
Indian military authorities said that New Delhi reminded Sri Lanka it was obliged to illuminate its neighbors about such port calls under a sea settlement, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue with Rajapaksa at a gathering in New York.
In a conceivable indication of moving devotions, India's top emissary in Colombo, High Commissioner Y.k. Sinha, displayed Sirisena with a substantial bunch of blooms hours after the results were reported on Jan 9. China's minister was just ready to meet the new president after six days.
