He served as the president of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade from 2008 to 2012. In 2013, he became a Minister of Transportation in the Government of Ivica Dačić, and served until the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, after which he became a Minister of Mining and Energy per 27 April 2014 in the Government of Aleksandar Vučić. While talking to the press on 4 December 2014 he was hit by an approximately three-kilogram chunk of ice that fell from a powerline. He was unhurt as he wore a hard hat. He lost his position with the formation of the second cabinet of Ana Brnabić and was succeeded as Minister by Zorana Mihajlović on 28 October 2020.
