Hyderabad, Feb. 11 -- Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, launched a scathing attack on Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas of India, Hardeep Singh Puri, alleging that his and industrialist Anil Ambani's names appeared in the Epstein Files.

Speaking during a debate on the Union Budget on Wednesday, February 11, Rahul alleged that the government has "sold Bharat Mata" through the India-US interim trade deal and that it was a "wholesale surrender" with India's energy security handed over to America and farmers' interests compromised.

"There are Department of Justice files on Epstein naming Hardeep Puri and Anil Ambani. I do not believe that any Indian Prime Minister. would sign such a de...