Hyderabad, Feb. 15 -- Lately, Union Minister for Petroleum Hardeep Singh Puri finds himself in a precarious position ever since senior Congress member and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha (LoP), Rahul Gandhi, alleged that the former had links with late American financier and convicted paedophileJeffery Epstein.

On February 11, Rahul, during the Union Budget Session, claimed that Puri and industrialist Anil Ambani's names have appeared several times in the Epstein Files, released by the United States Department of Justice on January 30.

The Congress leader hit out at Puri, claiming the India-US interim trade deal was a "wholesale surrender" with India's energy security handed over to America and farmers' interests compromised.

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