[2] The BSS is known for staging the 7 November 1975 coup through the Sipahi–Janata Revolution, which would eventually make way for the rise of Lt. Gen. Ziaur Rahman in the country's politics.

[2] The group held secret meetings at the Ahsanullah Hall of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Khaled Mosharraf asked Lt. Gen. Ziaur Rahman to restore the chain of command, which Zia was either unwilling or unable to do.

Khaled Mosharraf, Col. Khondkar Nazmul Huda and Lt. Col. Abu Taher Mohammad Haider staged a coup removing Mostaq from power and placed Zia under house arrest.

In response to Zia's request, the BSS held secret meetings each night between 4 and 6 November, under the leadership of Taher.

The twelve demands were of a left-wing nature, as the opening line of the declaration read:"This revolution is for one purpose – the interests of the oppressed classes.

Subedar Mehboob fired a single shot during the early hours of 7 November, which signalled the start of the uprising.

[3] On 6 November night, soldiers belonging to the BSS freed Zia from imprisonment and took him to the headquarters of the 2nd Field Artillery regiment.

According to Lt. Col. (retd) MA Hamid, Zia said in the speech that he had assumed the position of Chief Martial Law Administrator at the "request of Army".

Failing to pacify them, Zia, at one point, undid his uniform's waist belt and threw it on the ground, saying, "I don't want to be the chief of this army anymore if there are so many demands!"

Instead, the Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator, Major General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, spoke with him.

A total of 33 people were put on trial, including:[6] Abu Taher was hanged on 21 July 1976, in Dhaka Central Jail.

After 37 years, in 2013, a High Court verdict stated that the trial of Abu Taher was illegal and described it as a "cold-blooded murder".