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     Jyoti Basu 
	 
		
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        Jyoti Basu, seen here at an election rally in West Bengal, is the longest serving chief minister of India (1977-2000). In 1989, India Today quoted him as saying, "Rajiv Gandhi had promised to take India to the 21st century. He does not release that India can get there without him." | 
      
       
	  
	   
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