 Kotelawala did not have the enormous personal prestige or the adroit political acumen of D. S. Senanayake.He brought to the fore the issue of national languages that D. S. Senanayake had adroitly kept on the back burner, antagonising the Tamils and the Sinhalese by stating conflicting policies with regard to the status of Sinhala and Tamil as official languages.He also antagonized the Buddhist lobby by attacking politically active Buddhist Monks who were Bandaranaike's supporters.