Vijay Mallya- Politicians Who Backed Him

Mallya cadged loans and hedged around law with help from politicians.

- Arindam Mukherjee With Ajay Sukumaran

Circle Of Politicos 

Pranab Mukherjee As FM, said to have helped Mallya get his huge debt restructuring on extremely easy terms 

Ajit Singh As Civil aviation minister in UPA II, sack ed DGCA Bharat Bhushan,who asked KFA to pay up the staff.

H.D. deve gowda The JD (S) strongman, friendly with Mallya, was instrumental in getting party’s backing for him in Rajya Sabha.

SubraManian Swamy Mallya pipped him to become Janata Party working president, was sacked by Swamy from the post in 2010

Praful Patel As civil aviation minister, he helped Mallya get a juicy airport hangar slot and ground handling and services tie up with Air India

Sharad Pawar Extremely close to Mallya and is said to have helped Mallya in getting bank loans for Kingfisher. Also had links with Mallya’s wine company.

At the end of his book tit­led The Vijay Mallya Story, business journalist K. Giriprakash sums up the liquor­to­aviation baron:“He is quite a lonely indi­vidual, and according to my ‘Deep throat’, he neither has permanent enemies nor permanent friends”. That is a telling comment on the businessman­turned­politician who has nurtured over dec­ades the right kind of powerful friends across capitals, conti­nents and political dispensa­tions. After all, Mallya’s liquor business runs largely on politi­cal patronage. the booze lobby is one of the largest and most promi­nent financer of elections.