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Vishwanath Mathur

Indian independence activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Vishwanath Mathur was an Indian independence activist.[1]

He was arrested in 1930 for his anti-government activities.[2] He was also jailed in Port Blair's Cellular Jail for his role in the independence movement.[3][1]

A founding member of the ex-Andaman Political Prisoners' Fraternity Circle, he also served as the President of the All India Freedom Fighters' Association.[4]

In 2003, he criticized the Indian Parliament's decision to hang portrait of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the Parliament. He added Savarkar was a "coward being portrayed as a revolutionary".[5]

He died in 2004 at the age of 92 due to cardiac arrest at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.[6] Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh said Mathur was a "cherished link with our freedom struggle".[7]

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