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|name =DBM Patnaik<br />
|birth_name =Donkada Bhuvan Mohan Patnaik<br />
|birth_date =31 October 1925<br />
|birth_place =Bhagimpeta, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh<br />
|occupation =lawyer<br />
|death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|2009|2|11|1925|10|31}}<br />
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'''Donkada Bhuvan Mohan Patnaik''' (31 October 1925 – 11 February 2009), also known as '''D. B. M. Patnaik''' or simply '''DBM''', was an Indian lawyer, politician and communist leader. He was from [[Bhagimpeta]] in [[Srikakulam district]].<ref name="Hindu obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/UCCRI-ML-leader-DBM-passes-away/article16332183.ece|title=UCCRI (ML) leader DBM passes away|date=12 February 2009|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref><br />
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Patnaik practiced law at the [[Gunupur]] district court where he met [[Nagbhushan Patnaik]]; both of them defended peasants in court cases. In 1967, the two of them became active in the [[Naxalite movement]] that lead to the formation of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Banerjee|first=Sumanta|title=Nagbhushan Patnaik and His Political Legacy|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|year=1998|volume=33|issue=44|pages=2775&ndash;2776|jstor=4407316}}</ref><br />
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Patnaik started his political career with the [[Communist Party of India]] and subsequently joined the [[CPI (M)]]. Along with Nagbhushan Patnaik, he joined the revolutionary communists in the [[Srikakulam Girijan Naxalbari movement]]. He was an active leader of the movement and subsequently joined the CPI (ML) which was formed after the various Naxalite movements. He later joined the [[UCCRI(ML)|UCCRI (ML)]]. He was active in various trade union movements and was also instrumental in the struggles of the people belonging to the lower economic strata of coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.<ref name="Hindu obit" /><br />
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D.B.M. Patnaik died on 12 February 2009 at the age of 84, after developing complications from surgery.<ref name="Hindu obit" /><br />
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