He ran again at the 2nd parliamentary election, held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952, again as an Independent and this time was successful, obtaining 11,420 votes (59% of the total vote) defeating the sitting member, Lebbe, by 3,460 votes.[4] Kadramer, although a Tamil, publicly questioned the creation of a separate Tamil state arguing that there was no geographic contiguity between the Tamil areas of the east and north.[5][6]
In 1956, when the Federal Party competed for the first time in the electorate, Kadramer adopted the party label of the Batticaloa Tamil Speakers Front (BTSF).[7] He was unable to retain his seat at the subsequent 3rd parliamentary election, losing to the Illanki Tamil Arasu Kachi (Federal Party) candidate, C. Rajadurai, by 8,004 votes.[8]
^Welenghama, Gnanapala; Pillay, Nimal (2014). The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka: From Communalism to Secession. Routledge. p. 191. ISBN9781135119713.
^Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (1988). The Break-up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 85. ISBN9781850650331.
^De Silva, G (1979). A Statistical survey of elections to the legislatures of Sri Lanka, 1911-1977. Colombo: Marga Institute. pp. 133–134.