About Jyoti Basu

Jyoti Basu, an Indian Marxist theorist, was a leader of the Communist movement in India.

He was the longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000 and a founding member of the Communist Party of India.

A member of the Politburo of the party, he was also a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 11 times.

At the time of his resignation, he was the longest serving chief minister in India and considered for the post of Prime Minister of India four times.

Jyoti Basu, born to a middle-class Bengali family in Calcutta, British India, had a doctor father and a housewife mother from Barudi in the Dhaka District of the Bengal Presidency.

He was the youngest of three siblings, had an affectionate nickname, and was raised in an Indian style family.

Nilinkanta, a judge in the High Court, had ancestral lands in Barudi which were turned into a library after his death.

His education began at the Loreto School Kindergarten in Calcutta where his name was shortened to Jyoti during admission.

Later he moved to St. Xaviers, completed his education in 1932, and pursued Law at University College, London, becoming a barrister on January 26, 1940.

Jyoti Basu returned to India before receiving his qualification.

91Astrology prediction for Jyoti Basu

The person will like change - he will keep changing his house, work, work-place etc.

He will be intelligent and logical; he will have the ability to analyze the truth.

He will be careful and alert in his work. To ensure the accuracy of the task, he will verify it two to three times.

He will expect others to speak less while he herself will give detailed explanations about everything, no matter how disinterested others might be.

He will be faultfinding, that is to say, he will be an expert in finding defects in others work.

He will be shy and reserved in nature.

He will be critical since birth; he will take pleasure in finding out mistakes and will always assess the smallest and insignificant matter very minutely.

He will complete his work in a systematic and organized manner. He will obey the instructions carefully and completely.

He will have a real interest in education. He will have a natural tendency to learn new subjects.

Since he will be intelligent, he will love learned and thoughtful persons.

He will have knowledge in various arts such as comedy, music and singing, playing musical instruments and sports. He will be well known for dressing well and his artistic interests.

He will be boastful and will have a tendency of displaying more than what he actually has.

His personality may have certain weaknesses - teasing and annoying to others by being unnecessarily critical, nervousness, self-doubt and too much analysis over simple things.