{"id":1031270,"date":"2026-08-26T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031270"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:30:28","slug":"golgappa-and-vegetable-sellers-far-more-intelligent-than-rahul-bjp-attacks-congress-for-mocking-upi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/golgappa-and-vegetable-sellers-far-more-intelligent-than-rahul-bjp-attacks-congress-for-mocking-upi\/","title":{"rendered":"Golgappa and vegetable sellers far more intelligent than Rahul: BJP attacks Congress for &#8216;mocking&#8217; UPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting the &#8220;success story&#8221; of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the BJP on Tuesday attacked the Congress, saying its leader P Chidambaram had mocked the launch of UPI which has become the world&#8217;s largest real-time payment system in a decade. <\/p>\n<p>The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on Tuesday completed a decade of its rollout in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said Chidambaram called UPI a &#8220;big blunder&#8221; and had claimed that it would impact the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting the &#8220;success story&#8221; of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the BJP on Tuesday attacked the Congress, saying its leader P Chidambaram had mocked the launch of UPI which has become the world&#8217;s largest real-time payment system in a decade. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on Tuesday completed a decade of its rollout in 2016. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said Chidambaram called UPI a &#8220;big blunder&#8221; and had claimed that it would impact the country&#8217;s economy.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031270","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=1031270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031289,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031270\/revisions\/1031289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}