[3] Tariqul got the dilapidated Shaheed Minar of Michael Madhusudan College repaired in Jessore in 1962 and was arrested by the then military government.

[citation needed] He was imprisoned in Rajshahi and Jessore for nine months in 1968 for his anti-Ayub movement.

[citation needed] He joined the National Awami Party led by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani in 1970.

He was also elected joint secretary general, acting secretary general, vice chairman of the BNP and a member of the standing committee of the fifth council of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2009.

[citation needed] Islam was a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).