diff --git a/fairscale/nn/data_parallel/fully_sharded_data_parallel.py b/fairscale/nn/data_parallel/fully_sharded_data_parallel.py
index cdd6e6e8c..ba5b04c4b 100644
--- a/fairscale/nn/data_parallel/fully_sharded_data_parallel.py
+++ b/fairscale/nn/data_parallel/fully_sharded_data_parallel.py
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ def __init__(
         limit_all_gather_events: bool = False,
         limit_reduce_scatter_events: bool = False,
         should_validate_process_group: bool = True,
+        tensor_parallel_group: Optional[ProcessGroup] = None,
     ):
         try:
             import torch._C
@@ -380,6 +381,7 @@ def __init__(
         init_start = time.time()
         super().__init__()
         self.process_group = process_group or get_process_group_cached()
+        self.tensor_parallel_group = tensor_parallel_group
         # If ProcessGroupName.default is passed in, the reduce_scatter will use the same process group with
         # the rest of operations. The overlap feature in the backward propagation is disabled.
         if process_group_reduce_scatter == ProcessGroupName.default:
@@ -1726,6 +1728,17 @@ def _post_backward_hook(self, param: Parameter, *unused: Any) -> None:
         if not self._require_backward_grad_sync:
             return
 
+        # run allreduce on param if necessary
+        if self.tensor_parallel_group.size() > 1:
+            if self.fp32_reduce_scatter:
+                orig_grad_data = param.unsharded_main_grad.data
+            else:
+                orig_grad_data = param.grad.data
+            for idx_pair in param._param_require_tp_allreduce:
+                param_allreduce = orig_grad_data[idx_pair[0]:idx_pair[1]].contiguous()
+                torch.distributed.all_reduce(param_allreduce, group=self.tensor_parallel_group)
+                orig_grad_data[idx_pair[0]:idx_pair[1]].copy_(param_allreduce)
+
         # Wait for all work in the current stream to finish, then start the
         # reductions in post_backward stream.
         self._streams["post_backward"].wait_stream(torch.cuda.current_stream())
diff --git a/fairscale/nn/misc/flatten_params_wrapper.py b/fairscale/nn/misc/flatten_params_wrapper.py
index 38265dd2b..7f3573f65 100644
--- a/fairscale/nn/misc/flatten_params_wrapper.py
+++ b/fairscale/nn/misc/flatten_params_wrapper.py
@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ def __new__(cls, params: Sequence[nn.Parameter], requires_grad: bool = True) ->
     def __init__(self, params: Sequence[nn.Parameter], requires_grad: bool = True):
         """Initialize the _param_numels and _param_shapes lists."""
         self._param_numels = [p.numel() for p in params]
+        self._param_require_tp_allreduce = []
+        for idx in range(len(params)):
+            p = params[idx]
+            if hasattr(p, "norm_allreduce_last_microbatch") and p.norm_allreduce_last_microbatch:
+                self._param_require_tp_allreduce.append(
+                    [sum(self._param_numels[0:idx]), sum(self._param_numels[0:idx+1])]
+                )
         assert self.numel() <= sum(
             self._param_numels
         ), f"Something wrong with __new__ method, {self.numel()} vs. {sum(self._param_numels)}"