--- title: Vijay Mallya: Kingfisher Baron Quits India's Parliament description: He is accused of absconding to the U.K. while owing $1.4 billion to a group of Indian banks— a sum he claims is "an inflated amount." canonical: https://time.com/4315765/vijay-mallya-kingfisher-indian-parliament-resigns-debt/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-03T05:07:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:13:15.281Z article:section: World og:title: Indian Liquor Magnate Vijay Mallya Resigns From Parliament og:description: He is embroiled in a controversy over $1.4 billion in unpaid debt og:url: https://time.com/4315765/vijay-mallya-kingfisher-indian-parliament-resigns-debt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62d018d89f22eaf2/698891a2ab6d77396d6a9858/gettyimages-493957458.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: F1 Grand Prix of USA - Practice og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Indian Liquor Magnate Vijay Mallya Resigns From Parliament twitter:description: He is embroiled in a controversy over $1.4 billion in unpaid debt twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62d018d89f22eaf2/698891a2ab6d77396d6a9858/gettyimages-493957458.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # India's Flamboyant 'King of Good Times' Vijay Mallya Resigns From Parliament Over Debt > Sponsored content. 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According to the _Indian Express_, Mallya said in a letter to Vice President Hamid Ansari — who is also the chairman of the Parliament’s upper house — that he was stepping down to avoid his name being “further dragged in the mud.” He also expressed the view that he would not “get a fair trial or justice.” Mallya’s resignation pre-empts his seemingly imminent expulsion from Parliament by an ethics committee, which said last week it planned to remove him on Tuesday. In a separate letter to the committee’s chairman, the 60-year-old billionaire called the allegations against him “false and baseless.” In an [interview](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b0072e74-0d3d-11e6-b41f-0beb7e589515.html#axzz47YDnHXFo "undefined") last week with the _Financial Times_ in London, Mallya said he has no plans to leave the U.K. — where he has been for two months in what he claims is “forced exile.” One of India’s most high-profile business magnates, who primarily made his vast fortune from the country’s globally popular Kingfisher beer, Mallya — known as the “King of Good Times” for his lavish lifestyle — also owns a Formula 1 team and an Indian cricket franchise. He is accused by more than a dozen banks of owing them $1.4 billion in debts — which he told the _FT_ is an “inflated amount” — over his now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, which went bust in 2012. He [left India](http://time.com/4253543/vijay-mallya-india-billion-debt-kingfisher/ "undefined") in early March, days before the banks requested the country’s Supreme Court to block his departure. 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