The district administration paid rich tributes to martyr Laxman Nayak on his 119th birth anniversary. District Collector K Sudarshan Chakrabarthy, MLA Potaingi, Prafulla Kumar Pangi, besides other officials offered floral tributes to the tribal leader at his statue in his native village of Tentuligumma.
The SDC Chairman, Koraput, the Vice Chairman, Boipariguda Block, the Tentulligumma Sarpanch, the Sub Collector Jeypore, the PA ITDA, Jeypore , the DIPRO, Koraput and the BDO, Boiparigua, attended the programme while DIPRO Jagarnath Prasad Raiguru and Satyanarayan Pradhan coordinated the event.
A series of functions was organised to highlight the contribution of Nayak during the freedom movement of India.
Getting the call of Gandhi, Nayak led a procession on August 21, 1942, demonstrating against British rule in front of Mathili Police Station. However, the brutal police officers open fired on the protesters killing 40 and hundreds were injured.The British administration implicated Nayak in a case of murder. He was hanged on March 29, 1943 in Brahmapur Jail.