High prices push food inflation to 19.05 pc

However, the overall wholesale price index-based inflation for the month ended October stood at 1.34 per cent.

The Reserve Bank will review its current easy monetary policy stance on January 29, although RBI Governor D Subbarao has said WPI is quite modest compared to consumer prices.

A worried Congress President Sonia Gandhi had said during the week that “price rise of essential commodities continues to be a matter of highest concern to us.”