In 1954, he was elected the First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party. In 1956 together with the then chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, Mirza Ibrahimov, he was able to introduce a new paragraph to the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR that for the first time since the Soviet invasion declared Azerbaijani language the official language of the Azerbaijan SSR.
He became the First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party in 1954. In 1956, together with Mirza Ibrahimov, who was then the head of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, they managed to insert a new provision into the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR, which for the first time since the Soviet invasion acknowledged Azerbaijani as the official language of the Azerbaijan SSR.