 He was arrested in 1942 for replacing a Union Jack with a Muslim League flag flying on a government building in Ramna.In 1944, he was elected a president of Bengali Muslim Chhatra League of Bogra District.He led a procession in the University of Dhaka campus in protest of the statement of the then chief minister Khwaja Nazimuddin on 30 January 1952 on the language issue.