India sure to vote for UNHRC resolution: Suresh

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran, who returned recently from a visit to Tamil Nadu, said he was confident India would

From what I gauged during my interactions with them, I am fully confident that India will vote for the resolution as they did on the previous two occasions

vote for the resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC sessions this month.

He told Daily Mirror that he visited Tamil Nadu and addressed a forum or- ganised by human rights organisations representing different Indian states such as those of West Bengal, Rajasthan and Kannada.

Mr. Premachandran said he had discussions with representatives of several Tamil Nadu political parties and the Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) but declined to give any more details.

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Suresh Premachandran

“From what I gauged during my interactions with them, I am fully confident that India will vote for the resolution as they did on the previous two occasions,” he said. Commenting on the draft resolution, he said he was not happy with its contents. “We are not happy with the contents of the draft resolution. It does not mean we are opposed to it. We are lobbying for a stronger wording of the resolution. Actually, the second draft is an improvement on the first one,” he said.