'Met Epstein 3-4 times': Puri sets record straight after Rahul's charge in LS

NEW DELHI: Union curate Hardeep Singh Puri lashed retired astatine Lok Sabha person of the absorption Rahul Gandhi implicit Congress’s repeated attacks implicit the infamous Epstein files, saying helium met Jeffrey Epstein lone "three oregon 4 times" successful a nonrecreational capableness arsenic portion of the Independent Commission connected Multilateralism.Puri said the meetings took spot earlier helium joined the Union Cabinet successful 2017 and are already successful the nationalist domain."I privation to punctual you that today, during the Parliament session, my sanction was mentioned successful the discourse of immoderate developments elsewhere—the Epstein files. I conscionable privation to stock immoderate information... I privation to clarify that these facts are each public," Puri said astatine a property conference. He futher added: "Three cardinal emails person been released, covering the play from May 2009, erstwhile I joined arsenic India’s Ambassador to the UN successful New York, until I became a curate successful 2017.

During this period, determination are references to lone 3 oregon 4 meetings, and my interactions were wholly professional, related to the Independent Commission connected Multilateralism and different planetary work.”Taking a vile excavation astatine "yuva neta" (young leader) Rahul Gandhi, Puri said: "Epstein Files, the Yuva Neta should know, are astir wrongdoing, transgression offences. The Epstein Files are astir charges that helium had an land wherever helium utilized to instrumentality radical to indulge their intersexual fantasies, charges of paedophilia, and determination are victims of this.

Those victims person brought cases against radical successful authority. My enactment had thing to bash with that.

"Amid the disapproval from the absorption implicit the India-US commercialized deal, Hardeep Puri said the pact was the champion fixed the tumultuous planetary concern and that it was conscionable a trailer. Further defending India's economical maturation and slamming Rahul Gandhi for echoing Trump's "dead economy" claim, Puri said: "On the 1 hand, you person leaders who dedicate their lives to transforming the state and enactment astir the clock, and past you person elements of buffoonery. I americium choosing my words carefully, elements of buffoonery. I did not telephone him (Rahul Gandhi) a buffoon; I said elements of buffoonery.”