Military advisor to India's National Security Council Secretariat, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon said that India's decision to vote in favour of the resolution tabled at the UNHRC was a "calculated" vote in the national interest.
Speaking at a seminar on ‘Challenges to India's National Security in 21 Century' jointly organised by the Indian Army and the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Madras, Menon said,
“You can say that the Central Government was influenced by coalition politics. But, in the end it is all about national interest."
"It was a calculated vote."
"They [Sri Lanka] have not done enough or they are not doing what they promised to. Definitely, our voice is in that direction,”
Menon added, that though Sri Lanka had won the war, it might lose peace in the long run.
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