{"id":1027406,"date":"2026-08-08T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027406"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:38:14","slug":"finance-ministers-upi-charge-only-for-merchants-claim-rests-on-five-dubious-claims-says-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/finance-ministers-upi-charge-only-for-merchants-claim-rests-on-five-dubious-claims-says-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance minister\u2019s \u2018UPI charge only for merchants\u2019 claim rests on &#8216;five dubious claims&#8217;, says Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s defence of the proposed changes to the law governing UPI payments rested on \u201cfive dubious claims\u201d and insisted that the amendment weakens statutory protection for India&#8217;s flagship digital payments system.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh salvo came after Sitharaman accused Ramesh of &#8220;spreading a canard&#8221; over the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which proposes changes to Section 10A of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s defence of the proposed changes to the law governing UPI payments rested on \u201cfive dubious claims\u201d and insisted that the amendment weakens statutory protection for India&#8217;s flagship digital payments system. The fresh salvo came after Sitharaman accused Ramesh of &#8220;spreading a canard&#8221; over the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which proposes changes to Section 10A of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027433,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027406\/revisions\/1027433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}