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'''Vishwanath Mathur''' was an Indian independence activist.<ref name="x666">{{cite book | title=The Indian Journal of Political Science | publisher=Indian Political Science Association | date=2006 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHNWAAAAYAAJ | access-date=2025-09-06 | page=880-885}}</ref><br />
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He was arrested in 1930 for his anti-government activities.<ref name="p075">{{cite book | last=Rannjan | first=Dr Manish | title=Bihar General Knowledge 2022 For Bpsc & Other Competitive Exams: Bestseller Book by Dr. Manish Rannjan: Bihar General Knowledge 2022 for BPSC & Other Competitive Exams | publisher=Prabhat Prakashan | date=2022-02-10 | isbn=978-93-5488-165-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=espdEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 | access-date=2025-09-06 | page=81}}</ref> He was also jailed in Port Blair's Cellular Jail for his role in the independence movement.<ref>{{cite web | title=Freedom fighters, historians oppose move | work=The Hindu | date=25 February 2003 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/freedom-fighters-historians-oppose-move/article27747903.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007173846/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/freedom-fighters-historians-oppose-move/article27747903.ece | archive-date=7 October 2019 }}</ref><ref name="x666"/><br />
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A founding member of the ex-Andaman Political Prisoners' Fraternity Circle, he also served as the President of the All India Freedom Fighters' Association.<ref>{{cite web | title=Old packs, new GST: Why your soap bar may get bigger soon | work=The Economic Times | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2003-03-11/news/27523772_1_d-savarkar-gandhi-assassination-central-hall/3 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911030222/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2003-03-11/news/27523772_1_d-savarkar-gandhi-assassination-central-hall/3 | archive-date=11 September 2016 }}</ref><br />
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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".<ref>{{cite web | title=Freedom fighters, historians oppose move | work=The Hindu | date=25 February 2003 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/freedom-fighters-historians-oppose-move/article27747903.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007173846/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/freedom-fighters-historians-oppose-move/article27747903.ece | archive-date=7 October 2019 }}</ref><br />
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He died in 2004 at the age of 92 due to cardiac arrest at the [[All India Institutes of Medical Sciences]] in New Delhi.<ref name="o720">{{cite web | title=Nation | website=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India | date=2004-06-12 | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040613/nation.htm | access-date=2025-09-06}}</ref> Indian Prime minister [[Manmohan Singh]] said Mathur was a "cherished link with our freedom struggle".<ref name="b780">{{cite book | title=Trade Union Record | publisher=All-India Trade Union Congress | date=2004 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHHtAAAAMAAJ&q=%2522vishwanath+mathur%2522 | access-date=2025-09-06 | page=14}}</ref><br />
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