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Shortage and rise in sugar prices ; food minister KR blamed as being entirely responsible. Narasimha Rao enters Parliament House. Even as the Congress party was in the throes of introspection after the humiliating defeat in the assembly election in the Southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka the Gyan Prakash committee's report which went into the sugar crisis took its first political victim. The civil supplies minister Mr. A. K. Antony tendered his resignation from the Council of Ministers and despite persuasion by the Prime Minister he refuses to withdraw it. Mr. Antony took umbrage at the fact that his ministry was unfairly mentioned as one of the parties responsible for the sugar import model and he resigned on what he called a matter of Principle. Some of the Congress and othe