[1] He was co-founder with Mid'hat Frashëri of the Balli Kombëtar organization in 1942, and the cosigner of the Dalmazzo-Këlcyra agreement with Lorenzo Dalmazzo.

He left the country to go to San Demetrio Corone, an Arbëreshë settlement in Calabria, Italy.

The organization had decided to fight the Italian invaders that were holding Albanian territories under the secret Treaty of London (1915).

[citation needed] Këlcyra participated in the Congress of Lushnje, and was elected a member of the Albanian Parliament as a deputy of Gjirokastër.

[citation needed] In 1942 he returned to Albania and, along with Mit'hat Frashëri, co-founded the Balli Kombëtar organization.