 In 1940, he joined the Azerbaijan Communist Party and received many important encharges.In 1954, he was elected the First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party.In 1956 together with the then chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, Mirza Ibrahimov, he was able to introduce a new paragraph to the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR that for the first time since the Soviet invasion declared Azerbaijani language the official language of the Azerbaijan SSR.