New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- BJP MP Sambit Patra on Saturday accused the Congress of spreading falsehoods by allegedly editing an email linked to the Jeffrey Epstein files to falsely suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken advice from the disgraced financier.

Speaking to ANI here, Patra said the Congress had carried out what he described as a "fraudulent act" by manipulating the contents of an email attributed to Epstein.

"I want to expose the kind of tweet that has been made by Congress about Prime Minister Modi ji - a fraudulent tweet. As you all know, there's a person named Jeffrey Epstein, after whom the Epstein Files are named. Those Epstein Files were revealed. Jeffrey Epstein was a child trafficker, a sex offender, a person ...