"Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who had earlier been opposing such hikes during the UPA government and now when his party -- SAD -- was a partner in the government at the Centre, should slam the decision," Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa said in a statement here.
"It is a good beginning for achhe din (good days). It is only now that the BJP would understand the basics of country's economy as it is easy to criticise the unpopular decisions which the government had to take purely by the constraints of the global economy," he said.