He said that the campaign proposal would be discussed by the Cabinet Secretary with the Information & Broadcasting Secretary who was absent at yesterday’s meeting.
Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index, jumped to a new 13-year high of 11.42 per cent for the week ended June 14 from 11.05 per cent a week ago on the back of a rise in prices of food items, petroleum and steel products. While Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that inflation would remain in “double digit for some more weeks,” the opposition BJP and the Left have used the numbers to slam the government.