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New Delhi: The Lok Sabha saw an uproar on Thursday (March 12) as Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi’s speech was once again cut short as he referred to Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri’s links with convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while referring to the concerns for India’s energy crisis in the wake of the conflict in West Asia.

Gandhi said that he had “figured out the puzzle” of why a country like India would allow US President Donald Trump to “permit” purchasing Russian oil and said that the “puzzle” is due to a “compromise” and pointed to Puri to say that he himself had admitted that he was a “friend” of Epstein’s.

As Gandhi sought to show a document which allegedly showed links between Puri’s daughter and George Soros, his speech was cut short as Speaker Om Birla said that he should speak on the matter on which he had given notice.

“The foundation of every single nation is its energy security. I do not say this lightly, but allowing the United States to decide who we buy oil from, who we buy gas from, whether we can buy oil from Russia or not, whether our relationships with different oil suppliers can be decided by us, this is what has been bartered,” said Gandhi.

“This has been a very puzzling fact for me, why a nation the size of India would allow any other nation, the President of another nation,........

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