 At the time of establishment of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, his sympathies were with the protesting party.He was one of the leaders of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, along with Sivanath Sastri, Ananda Mohan Bose, Umesh Chandra Dutta and Durga Mohan Das, when it was established in 1878 and was its first president and subsequently for many years.After the second break-up of the Brahmo movement, his house at Konnagar became a place of pilgrimage to the members of the new samaj.