evidence: "I don't think any country will help us without wanting something in return for themselves. India will, of course, be looking after their interest," Harini Amarasuriya, an MP from the Left-wing National People's Power Alliance, told the BBC. Ms Amarasuriya says that just like India, Sri Lanka too needs to make decisions that are in its best interests, and that it remains to be seen whether the country would have to give up control of its economic and strategic locations.