Later, Buzzfeed reported that, Sharma has close ties with India's ruling party Bhartiya Janata Party.[63] Meanwhile in response, the company tweeted that, it never shared user's data with third parties in which it again denied the contents of the video and stated that it never received requests from law enforcement on twitter.[64][65] Paytm also stated that any person claiming otherwise “is not aware of the policy and is not authorised to speak on behalf of the company”.[66][67]