 While in Samara, he participated in the Samara Guberniya Committee of the People's Freedom party set up in 1915.In April 1917, Bukeikhanov, Akhmet Baitursynov and several other native political figures took the initiative to convening an All-Kazakh Congress in Orenburg.In its resolution the Congress urged the return to the native population of all the lands confiscated from it by the previous regime, and the expulsion of all the new settlers from the Kazakh-Kirghiz territories.