Locket Chatterjee

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Locket Chatterjee
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Chatterjee in 2019
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
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Preceded byRatna De
Succeeded byRachna Banerjee
ConstituencyHooghly, West Bengal
General Secretary of BJP West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 June 2020
President of BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal
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Preceded byRoopa Ganguly
Succeeded byAgnimitra Paul
Member of West Bengal Commission for Women
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Personal details
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Dakshineswar, West Bengal, India
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PartyBharatiya Janata Party (since 2015)
Other political
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Trinamool Congress (till 2015)
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Prasenjit Bhattacharjee
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(m. 1995)​
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EducationJogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta (B.Sc)
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  • Actress
  • politician
  • dancer
CommitteesMember of Standing Committee on Information Technology
Awards
Kalakar Award
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Locket Chatterjee (born 4 December 1974) is an Indian actress, politician and former Member of Parliament from Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal.[2] She is also a classical dancer, having completed her training in Bharat Natyam, Kathakali, Manipuri and Creative dance.[3] Chatterjee is better known as an actress in Tollywood. She was previously the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha, the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal.[4] Since then she served as the General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal.

Early life

Chatterjee's father Anil Chatterjee was a purohit of Dakshineswar Kali Temple as was her grandfather. Her mother took her to dance school. Chatterjee went abroad with the Mamata Shankar ballet troupe when she was a class VIII student.[5] She grew up by the Maa Ganga (popular as Hooghly) on the northern outskirts of Calcutta's Dakshineswar area.[6]

She later studied at Jogamaya Devi College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta.[7]

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards

  • Kalakar Awards[12]
  • Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actor Supporting Role (Female) – Bengali for Nayika Sangbad (directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay and edited by Dipak Mandal 2014)

Political career

Chatterjee forayed into politics as a member of All India Trinamool Congress.[13] She severed ties with the Trinamool Congress and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015.[14] She contested 2016 assembly elections from Mayureshwar in West Bengal but lost to Abhijit Roy of AITC.[15] In 2017 she replaced Roopa Ganguly as the president of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal.[16] On 1 June 2020, she was appointed as the General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal and was succeeded by Agnimitra Paul as the President of the BJP Mahila Morcha.[17]

Member of Parliament

She contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hooghly Lok Sabha seat against Ratna De and won getting 6,71,448 (46.06%) votes.[18][19] On 13 September 2019, she was selected as a Member of Standing Committee on Information Technology and since 9 October 2019 onwards, she served as Member of Committee on Empowerment of Women till her tenure ended. In spite of being a sitting MP, in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, she contested from Chuchura Vidhan Sabha seat and lost by a whopping 18,879 votes to AITC candidate Asit Mazumdar.[20]

Subsequently, she failed to regain her constituency and lost to fellow actress, a newcomer to electoral politics, Rachna Banerjee of AITC in the 2024 Indian general election by a margin of 76,853.[21][22][23]

See also

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