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Basdeo Panday
Acting
25 May 1933
† 01 Jan 2004
Trinidad, West Indies
Biography
Basdeo Panday was a Trinidadian statesman, lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, and actor, who served as the fifth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first Indo-Trinidadian, along with being the first Hindu, to hold the office of prime minister.
