New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to “prostrate” before US President Donald Trump and give a huge amount of money to America, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Wednesday and demanded a rollback of the government’s decision to levy a fee on UPI payments.
In a video posted on X, Gandhi urged Prime Minister Modi to “stop lying down in front of the US, have a spine, stand up” and rollback the “UPI tax”.
Modi ji, roll back the UPI tax. Now. pic.twitter.com/IIt46zMgCG
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 16, 2026
The government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through UPI from October 15, while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charge.
Gandhi said, “(Former prime minister) Indira (Gandhi) ji was once asked whether she leans left or right and her response was ‘I don’t lean left, I don’t lean right, I stand straight’. Modi ji has a completely different concept, he is neither left nor right, he has decided to lie down straight and prostrate himself in front of Donald Trump.”
“He (Modi) has put a tax on every single Indian person by taxing UPI and giving a huge amount of money to the United States,” Gandhi said in the video.
“Modi ji, rollback the UPI tax. Now,” he said in a post accompanying the video.
