New Delhi: A fresh political row has erupted after Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra claimed that Union petroleum minister and former diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri urged to take down an X post in which she had revealed his connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Epstein Files are creating Havoc across the world with names of top politicians and celebrities popping up.
Moitra shared screenshots from the released documents which purportedly contain emails from Puri to the deceased Epstein. The MP also claimed that she rec
eived a call from Puri, asking her to ‘delete the tweet’. The minister allegedly told her that if ‘people come after me now he won’t be able to help it.’
“I’ll take my chances, Sir. Your thug armies don’t scare me,” Moitra posted on X, as reported by Deccan Herald.
According to Reuters, a federal judge in New York City has said he would hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider shutting the government website that houses millions of files in the Jeffrey Epstein case after victims’ names were improperly disclosed.
Moitra had earlier shared an image which purportedly referred to a December 2014 email between Puri and Epstein, released as part of the Epstein Files, in which the minister acknowledged speaking to Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn.
These emails were made public by the US Justice Department on January 30 along with thousands of files linked to the convicted American sex offender and are between June 2014 to June 2017.