Adagur H. Vishwanath

Adaguru Huchegowda Vishwanath (born 15 December 1949) is an Indian politician from Karnataka state. He is a leader of Indian National Congress. He is a Nominated Member of Karnataka Legislative Council. He was the former president of Karnataka unit of the Janata Dal (Secular).

Career
Vishwanath has been in active politics since 1970s. He was a member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly for three terms, held State and Cabinet minister posts in the Government of Karnataka as member of Congress Party. In 2009, he contested 15th Lok Sabha and succeeded C. H. Vijayashankar. During his term as M.P., Vishwanath was also member of several committees. Vishwanath quit the Congress party to join the JD(S) in 2017 and got elected  from Hunsur in 2018. He resigned   as MLA and speaker has disqualified    him from the legislative assembly on 28 July 2019. But in by-elections of December 2019 he lost to H P Manjunath of Congress party. In July 2020 he was nominated   to Legislative council.

Operation Kamala
He was one of the 15 MLAs who fell in Operation Kamala and resigned in July 2019, effectively bringing down the H. D. Kumaraswamy-led coalition government of Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (Secular).