He was arrested in 1942 for replacing a Union Jack with a Muslim League flag flying on a government building in Ramna.
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.
The decision to violate section 144 of the criminal procedure code was taken in realizing the demand for making Bengali a state language of Pakistan.
[1] In April 1971, he along with 27 freedom fighters attacked the Aria Cantonment in North Bengal and liberated it.
He was also the chairman of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and Bogra Hamdard Unani Medical College and Hospital.