{"id":1036671,"date":"2026-09-18T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036671"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:27:00","slug":"congress-rejects-upi-fee-claim-accuses-modi-government-of-diverting-attention-from-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/congress-rejects-upi-fee-claim-accuses-modi-government-of-diverting-attention-from-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress rejects UPI fee claim, accuses Modi government of diverting attention from backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday rejected claims that its MPs who were part of the Parliament Standing Committee on Finance had supported the decision to levy a fee on high-value UPI payments, and said the Modi government was making &#8220;pathetic&#8221; attempts to divert attention from the &#8220;gigantic backlash&#8221; generated after the &#8220;UPI tax&#8221; decision. <\/p>\n<p>The opposition party&#8217;s assertion came after the government questioned the rationale behind Congress leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s criticism of the decision to levy a fee on UPI payments to merchants above Rs 2,000, saying a parliamentary standing committee had backed such a move and Congress members in the panel had supported it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday rejected claims that its MPs who were part of the Parliament Standing Committee on Finance had supported the decision to levy a fee on high-value UPI payments, and said the Modi government was making &#8220;pathetic&#8221; attempts to divert attention from the &#8220;gigantic backlash&#8221; generated after the &#8220;UPI tax&#8221; decision. The opposition party&#8217;s assertion came after the government questioned the rationale behind Congress leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s criticism of the decision to levy a fee on UPI payments to merchants above Rs 2,000, saying a parliamentary standing committee had backed such a move and Congress members in the [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036671","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=1036671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036692,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036671\/revisions\/1036692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}