Hours after sending in his resignation from the Rajya Sabha yesterday, liquor baron Vijay Mallya today tweeted that he was not a defaulter. He said that facts needed to be verified first before he was branded as a 'defaulter'.


However he admitted that Kingfisher Air owes money to banks. "Agree Kingfisher Air owes money to Banks. I am neither a borrower or a judgement debtor. Why am I a defaulter inspite of a settlement offer?" Mallya tweeted.


On Monday, Vijay Mallya resigned from Rajya Sabha. In his resignation letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, he said he does not want his "name and reputation to be further dragged in the mud".


"And since recent events suggest that I will not get a fair trial or justice, I am hereby resigning as a member of the Rajya Sabha with immediate effect," Mallya said in the letter.


He also referred to the letter written to him by the Chairman of the Ethics Committee of Rajya Sabha Karan Singh and said he had replied to Singh.


The Ethics Panel of the Rajya Sabha, which had taken up the matter, had unanimously decided in its April 25 meeting that Mallya should no longer remain a member of the House and was planning to recommend his expulsion in its next meeting on May 3.


Mallya is facing a case of loan default of over Rs 9,400 crore and is believed to be in the UK after leaving India on March 2.


Pic: Vijay Mallya at the McDowell Derby in 2013