[citation needed] On 29 September, under the leadership of Mannan, a group of the teachers of Madrasah met Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi.
[8] After independence, he became the president of the Jamiat-e-Mudarressin Bangladesh, an organisation of madrasah teachers and the founder of the Daily Inqilab, one of the country's highly circulated newspapers.
[5][9] In Saptahik Bichitra (a weekly magazine), Mannan denied that he had been a member of Peace Committee and claimed that he had not issued any statement in favor of Pakistan Army and the genocide committed by them.
[7] In 1979, he was elected a lawmaker from Chandpur and was appointed minister by President Hussain Muhammad Ershad's cabinet.
[11] In a report released in March 1994, a People's Inquiry Commission, identified, in addition to Ghulam Azam, eight others as the collaborators of the Al-Badr in the atrocities.