Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that his Government looked for consensus among all Tamil political parties in the quest for a political solution to the ethnic conflict. He was talking to visiting Parliamentary Delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association on the political situation in the post-conflict Sri Lanka. He told the delegates that reconciliation in Sri Lanka needed a home grown solution, and not one that is transported from elsewhere.AIR correspondent reports, putting the onus on Tamil political groups to work towards consensus on a political solution to the ethnic conflict, the Sri Lankan President in his meeting with the visiting Parliamentary Delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, once again emphasized the need for a home grown solution to the problem. Mahinda Rajapaksa said that there is more than one party representing Tamils and that his government looks forward to consensus among all, especially on aspects of development. He also told the visiting delegation that his first priority will be to hold the local government elections island wide, which is due early next year and that they would be followed with election to the Northern Provincial Council. He regretted that organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group that had been invited to give evidence before Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission had refused to do so. ‘The Commission was open to all including the United Nation’, he maintained.