Overview
- At a press conference, Congress alleged Hardeep Singh Puri exchanged 62 emails and held 14 meetings with Jeffrey Epstein between 2014 and 2017 and demanded his immediate resignation.
- The party cited nine meetings in June, September and October 2014 and said the interactions began soon after the Narendra Modi government took office.
- Congress claimed records show Puri sent 32 emails and Epstein sent 30, and pressed Puri to explain the nature of the discussions.
- Congress questioned the capacity in which Puri met Epstein in mid-2014, asking whether he shared government policies as a private citizen.
- Puri denied impropriety, saying he met Epstein only a few times and that any interactions were professional and unrelated to Epstein’s crimes, while the underlying documents were not made public in these reports.