Indian Independence and The Kamaraj Era
Bhaktavatsalam stood in the Madras Assembly elections held in 1946 and was re-elected. He served as the Minister of Public Works and Information in the O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar cabinet. In the 1952 Assembly elections, the first in independent India, Bhaktavatsalam lost.
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