WASHINGTON - Former-US Vice-President and Democratic party presidential candidate Joe Biden’s former aide has accused him of sexually assaulting her during the early 1990s when he was a Senator.

Tara Reade, who hails from California, had accused Biden of assaulting her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in 1993. She had also filed a police report in Washington which said that she was a victim of a sexual assault by an unknown person.

Earlier in the Democratic primary, Biden had also faced accusations of unwanted touching by women, who said they were uncomfortable with hugs, hand-holding and other actions.