Sedky was appointed as a technical adviser to the Egyptian prime minister's office in 1955, a few years after the
Egyptian Revolution of 1952. He next served as a full-time member of the services board until 1956. In 1956, Sedky was appointed as minister of industry by the
President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Among Sedky's tasks as minister was the supervision of an
industrialization program, which was financed by the
Soviet Union. The Soviets were, at the time, an important
ally of the Egyptian government. Sedky launched a five-year industrialization plan in 1957. This initiative was later merged into a "general five-year development plan", which lasted from 1961 until 1965. He was a member of the
Arab Socialist Union from 1962 and became part of its secret unit, the Socialist Vanguard (Arabic: al-Tanzim al-Tali‘i), which was also called the Vanguard Organization, in 1963 when the unit was established.{{cite magazine Sedky was promoted as deputy prime minister responsible for industry and mineral resources in 1964. Simultaneously, he also became the
minister of petroleum and mineral resources in 1964 as well. In November 1970, Sedky was also named as the
deputy prime minister for production and trade. Sedky was appointed
prime minister on 16 January 1972, following the resignation of
Mahmoud Fawzi. He remained in office until 26 March 1973 when he was replaced by
Anwar Sadat in the post. ==Death==