[3] Toaha participated as an activist in Sylhet Referendum under Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani in 1946.
On 11 March 1948, when a team led by Toaha went to Secretariat to give Khawaja Nazimuddin a memorandum, police arrested him.
He was the correspondent of Jubo League at Shorbodolio Kendrio Rashtrabhasha Kormoporishod (All-party Central Language Committee of Action).
In 1956 he floated a labour organization styled as Purba Pakistan Majdur Federation and was elected its president.
In 1957, Toaha was associated with the National Awami Party of Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and was later elected its general secretary.