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| | Indian communist poster boy pushes capitalism - Boston.com |
 | | BERHAMPORE, India (Reuters) - In India's West Bengal state, the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist government has relied on peasants to win power time and time again since 1977. |
 | | Now Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, state Chief Minister, says his party is going to win the latest election with new supporters: urban voters and businessmen who for years shunned the communists believing they were anti-business and focused on rural areas. |
 | | "Without capitalism, you cannot bring socialism in a feudal society," Bhattacharjee, a grey-haired man, told Reuters in Berhampore town, 210 km (130 miles) north of Kolkata, where he was campaigning to help the left notch up its seventh straight electoral victory in 29 years. |
| www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/04/30/indian_communist_poster_boy_pushes_capitalism?mode=PF (569 words) |
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