New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Thursday termed the government's clarification on the revised Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework "completely bogus" and alleged that the move would burden the common man.

Speaking to ANI, Venugopal said the government was contradicting its earlier claims about the benefits of digital transactions and alleged that people were now being asked to pay in cash.

"This is completely bogus; they are spreading. They are saying that the entire transaction of money is going to become a digital transaction. Earlier, you made it as their advantage, and you claimed it as the biggest advantage of the Modi government, and their transaction is now digi...