Vishwanath Mathur

Vishwanath Mathur was an Indian independence activist.
He was arrested in 1930 for his anti-government activities. He was also jailed in Port Blair's Cellular Jail for his role in the independence movement.
A founding member of the ex-Andaman Political Prisoners' Fraternity Circle, he also served as the President of the All India Freedom Fighters' Association.
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".
He died in 2004 at the age of 92 due to cardiac arrest at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh said Mathur was a "cherished link with our freedom struggle".