[1][3] The organisation had a parochial character, arguing for the rights of the Bhopali population against the rule of Punjabi Muslims.
[3] The arrest provoked popular protests and after seventeen days the government decided to release him.
[4] In 1950 the Kisan Mazdoor Mandal ('Peasant Worker Association') was formed by mergerists that left the Indian National Congress en bloc.
[7] In the 1952 election to the Legislative Assembly of the Bhopal State, Khan contested the Jahangirabad seat as a KMM candidate.
[1][4] Khan played an important role in making Bhopal the capital city of the new Madhya Pradesh state.
[1] He also served as the president of the Madhya Pradesh state unit of the All India Trade Union Congress.
[10] As a legislator, Khan was one of few prominent voices that protested against the setting up the Union Carbide Corporation chemical plant in Bhopal.
[5][11] In 1984 the Union Carbide Corporation plant was the site of a major industrial disaster with thousands of victims.