During his time as a teacher in Kavadarci he was elected a member of the District Revolutionary Committee of TMORO in 1904.

In the same year he became illegal and acted as a komitadji under the leadership of Dobri Daskalov, and later in the band of Jane Sandanski.

[3] He participated in the campaign against Istanbul in 1908 led by Jane Sandanski in support of the Young Turk Revolution.

After the Balkan wars he continued the anti-Serbian struggle in this area, where he awaited the Bulgarian occupation of Serbia.

Shkartov, together with Mihail Gerdzhikov, headed the national-revolutionary wing of the organization, which opposed the pro-communist faction.