Basu could have been great PM: Raja
By IANSSunday, January 17, 2010
NEW DELHI - Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja paid glowing tributes to Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu Sunday, saying he could have proved to be a great prime minister.
“He (Basu) proved that the coalition of Left parties would work successfully and serve the people greatly. He could have proved to be a great prime minister also,” Raja said.
In 1996, the centre-Left United Front asked Basu to lead the central government as prime minister. But the CPI-M declined the offer saying it would not head a national government whose policies it would not control.
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