Sri Lanka’s ruling UPFA and the main opposition United National party (UNP) today reached consensus on creation of an Executive Prime Minister accountable to Parliament replacing the existing Executive Presidency under the new Constitutional Reforms proposed by the government.UNP delegation headed by its Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe met the President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Monday at the invitation of the later to discuss matters on the proposed Constitutional amendments.The ruling UPFA and the opposition UNP agreed to appoint a committee comprising representatives of both the sides to take follow up measures for implementation of the consensus reaching at the meeting.At the meeting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the present Executive Presidency has been created as an isolated portfolio hence he proposed that the position of Head of the State should be transformed into a position accountable to Parliament and working in close coordination with the Parliament.Speaking to the media the opposition leader said that they had agreed to first discuss changes to the electoral system pertaining to local bodies as a pilot project and later the same could be applied to Provincial and Parliamentary elections as well.The UNP and the ruling UPFA had lengthy discussion on the modalities of these proposals and both the parties unanimously agreed to create an executive Prime Minster accountable to Parliament in the next amendment to the Constitution.President’s Media Division in a release said that the President has remarked that the Constitutional amendments should be based on a clear vision but not on personal agendas. The Government and Opposition also agreed to make amendment to the 17th amendment of the Constitution by making the members appointed to Commission under it accountable to the Cabinet of Ministers.Ministers Maithripala Sirisena, Prof. G.L Peiris, Nimal Siripala de Silva,Susil Premjayantha, Dalles Alahapperuma, Dinesh Goonewardene and Basil Rajapaksa represented the UPFA while the UNP was represented by Parliamentarians Karu Jayasuriya, Tissa Attanayake, Gamini Jayawickrema Perera and Joseph Michael Perera at meeting held at Temple Trees, the official residence of the President of Sri Lanka.According to AIR correspondent, at least on one issue there is a consensus between the ruling combine and the main opposition party in Sri Lanka. Of course it a major and serious issue as the need for major amendments to the 1978 Constitution have been felt ever since they were introduced by the then President J.R. Jayawardene. However, amendments to the Constitution could not be pushed earlier as none of the parties could muster the necessary two-thirds majority in the Parliament. Most parties in the island nation are in agreement that under the present Constitution the office of the President is not only too powerful but also is not accountable to the Parliament , and hence the need to scrap the present Executive Presidency and to create the post of Executive Prime Minister on lines of India.Last month the cabinet had approved proposals for amendments to the Constitution including removal of the two-term bar on the office of the President, which meant that President Rajapaksa can stand for a third term as well, which had not gone down well with the opposition.Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan Cabinet will meet for the first time in Kilinochchi tomorrow, the erstwhile political capital of LTTE . This will be the first of the series of meeting of the cabinet which will be held outside Colombo.