5 Congress MPs On Parliament Panel That Sought Charge On UPI Payments, Did Not Dissent: Sources

Five Congress members did not record dissent when a parliamentary panel pressed for charges on certain business transactions via UPI in August, sources said on Wednesday, even though the Opposition party is now opposing the government's move.Former ministers P Chidambaram and Manish Tewari were among the five MPs who were on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that called for a tiered Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions.Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha) Rahul Gandhi of the Congress has demanded that the new charge -- up to 0.04%, to be enforced from October 15 on merchants for transactions above Rs 2,000 -- be rolled back.Sources said Chidambaram, Tewari, Gaurav Gogoi, Kishori Lal and K Gopinath attended the meeting at which the committee adopted the report in August.