Mohan Nayak

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}

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| name = Mohan Nayak

| image = Mohan Nayak Berhampur.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|7|3|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Berhampur, Ganjam district, Odisha, British India

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|9|26|1921|7|3|df=yes}}

| death_place = Berhampur, Orissa, India

|office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

|term_start = 1962

|term_end = 1967

| constituency = Bhanjanagar, Odisha

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| successor = Ananta Tripathi Sarma

|term_start2 = 1957

|term_end2 = 1962

| constituency2 = Ganjam, Odisha

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| party = Indian National Congress

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|nationality = Indian

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| spouse = Chandrama

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| source = http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1284.htm

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Mohan Nayak (3 July 1921 – 26 September 1983) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress.{{cite web|title=Nayak, Shri Mohan — Members Bioprofile|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1284.htm|access-date=14 September 2020|publisher=Lok Sabha}}{{cite book|author=Sir Stanley Reed|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAIfAQAAMAAJ|access-date=16 May 2020|year=1958|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|page=1121}}{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bR83AAAAIAAJ|access-date=16 May 2020|year=1966|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|page=8391}}

Was imprisoned in 1940 and 1941 for satyagraha and again in 1942 in the Quit India Movement.{{cite web | last=Pioneer | first=The | title=Recalling Mohan Naik, hero of Dalits, on his birthday | website=The Pioneer | date=4 June 2021 | url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/state-editions/recalling-mohan-naik--hero-of-dalits--on-his-birthday.html | access-date=10 December 2023}}{{cite journal | url=https://www.allresearchjournal.com/archives/2020/vol6issue1/PartD/6-1-22-695.pdf | title=Role of two eminent person from Ganjam in anti-caste struggle in Odisha | author=Arati Kumari Panda | journal=International Journal of Applied Research | year=2020}}