<p class="title">Laxminarayan Nayak, centenarian freedom fighter and former MP, died at Niwari town in Madhya Pradesh due to age-related illness on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nayak (101) was ill for some time, his family said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He had represented Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat from 1997 -1980. Before that, he was elected as MLA from Niwari assembly seat in 1957.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the freedom struggle, Nayak was imprisoned several times.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Niwari's Sub Divisional Officer Vandana Rajput said that Nayak's last rites were performed with state honours on Saturday evening.</p>
<p class="title">Laxminarayan Nayak, centenarian freedom fighter and former MP, died at Niwari town in Madhya Pradesh due to age-related illness on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nayak (101) was ill for some time, his family said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He had represented Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat from 1997 -1980. Before that, he was elected as MLA from Niwari assembly seat in 1957.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the freedom struggle, Nayak was imprisoned several times.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Niwari's Sub Divisional Officer Vandana Rajput said that Nayak's last rites were performed with state honours on Saturday evening.</p>