 Thereafter he was invited by D. S. Senanayake to join his cabinet as the Minister for Food and Cooperatives Undertakings.Following D. S. Senanayake's death he served in the same capacity until he was appointed Minister of Home Affairs in 1952, following the 1952 general elections when he was re-elected from Wattegama.He remained Minister of Home Affairs in the Kotelawala cabinet until he was defeated at the 1956 general elections by Aloysius Weerakoon from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.