Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is facing charges for financial irregularities involving an amount of around Rs 9,000 crores, as well as money laundering cases in India, on Friday said it was his democratic right to vote in the Karnataka Assembly polls but he “cannot travel” to India.
Mallya had represented Karnataka twice in the Rajya Sabha.
“It is my democratic right to vote in Karnataka but conditions of my bail are such that I cannot leave the UK,” Mallya told reporters outside the Westminister Magistrate’s Court where the hearing in his ongoing extradition trial is being held.
However, when asked about his opinion on the state polls, he said, “I haven’t been following the politics there so cannot comment on the political developments.”
