{"id":1036279,"date":"2026-09-17T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036279"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:58:57","slug":"congress-raps-modi-over-upi-move-asks-if-govt-bowed-to-us-whim-on-zero-mdr-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/congress-raps-modi-over-upi-move-asks-if-govt-bowed-to-us-whim-on-zero-mdr-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress raps Modi over UPI move; asks if govt bowed to US whim on zero-MDR policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday criticised the government of giving in to US pressure by ending the zero-MDR regime for certain UPI transactions, question the move and asking whether it was intended to help US card companies compete with India&#8217;s digital payments system. <\/p>\n<p>He also took a swipe at PM Modi in his X(formerly Twitter post), saying he had &#8220;redefined NOTA&#8221; as &#8220;Narendra&#8217;s Ongoing Trump Appeasement&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday criticised the government of giving in to US pressure by ending the zero-MDR regime for certain UPI transactions, question the move and asking whether it was intended to help US card companies compete with India&#8217;s digital payments system. He also took a swipe at PM Modi in his X(formerly Twitter post), saying he had &#8220;redefined NOTA&#8221; as &#8220;Narendra&#8217;s Ongoing Trump Appeasement&#8221;.<\/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-1036279","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\/1036279","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=1036279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036339,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036279\/revisions\/1036339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}