{"id":1036433,"date":"2026-09-17T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036433"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:10:19","slug":"why-rahul-is-opposing-it-congress-mps-supported-upi-fee-in-2026-report-govt-cites-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/why-rahul-is-opposing-it-congress-mps-supported-upi-fee-in-2026-report-govt-cites-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rahul is opposing it, Congress MPs supported UPI fee in 2026 report; govt cites Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday cited a 2026 report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which recommended a tiered Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) and revenue framework for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and urged that it be notified and operationalised without delay. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive Congress MPs &#8212; P Chidambaram, Manish Tewari, Gaurav Gogoi, Kishori Lal and K Gopinath &#8212; were present on August 12 when the report was adopted, with no dissent recorded in the published minutes,\u201d official sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday cited a 2026 report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which recommended a tiered Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) and revenue framework for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and urged that it be notified and operationalised without delay. \u201cFive Congress MPs &#8212; P Chidambaram, Manish Tewari, Gaurav Gogoi, Kishori Lal and K Gopinath &#8212; were present on August 12 when the report was adopted, with no dissent recorded in the published minutes,\u201d official sources said.<\/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-1036433","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\/1036433","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=1036433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036453,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036433\/revisions\/1036453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}