Adaguru Huchegowda Vishwanath (born 15 December 1949) is an Indian politician[3] from Karnataka state.

[7][8][9] Vishwanath quit the Congress party[10] to join the JD(S)[11] in 2017 and got elected[12][13][14] from Hunsur in 2018.

[28] He is the author of book titled “Pracheena Parliamentgala Pradakshinegalu”, which is on ancient parliaments.

[29][30] Operation Kamala, also known as Operation Lotus is a term coined in 2008, when India's former minister G. Janardhana Reddy in the state of Karnataka, used various strategies, including persuasion and financial incentives to secure support from legislators bypassing the anti-defection law, so as to take the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) past the majority number.

[37] 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).