Laxminarayan Nayak (1918 – 30 November 2019) was an Indian politician from

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

. He was a member of the

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and

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Bhopal, the capital of the state. It is housed in the ''Vidh ...

Biography

Nayak was born in 1918 at Nimchauni in Tikmagarh. He was a

freedom fighter A freedom fighter is a person engaged in a struggle to achieve political freedom, particularly against an established government. The term is typically reserved for those who are actively involved in armed or otherwise violent rebellion. Termi ...

. During the

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, he was imprisoned several times. Nayak was elected as a member of

from Niwari in 1957 as a

Praja Socialist Party The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded in 1952 when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the ...

candidate. He was elected again from this constituency in 1972 as a

Samyukta Socialist Party Samyukta Socialist Party (; SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1974. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964. In 1965, Ram Manohar Lohia merged his Socialist Party (Lohia) with SSP and conteste ...

candidate. He was elected as a member of

from

Khajuraho Khajuraho () is a city, near Chhatarpur in Chhatarpur district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, Khajuraho has the country's largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples, famous ...

in 1977 as a

Janata Party The Janata Party (JP, ) is an unrecognised political party in India. Navneet Chaturvedi is the current president of the party since November 2021, replacing Jaiprakash Bandhu. The JP was established as an amalgam of Indian political partie ...

candidate. Nayak died on 30 November 2019 in Niwari at the age of 101.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nayak, Laxminarayan 1918 births Lok Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh 2019 deaths Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1957–1962 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1972–1977 Praja Socialist Party politicians Janata Party politicians People from Tikamgarh district Indian men centenarians India MPs 1977–1979 People from Niwari district