Locket Chatterjee

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Locket Chatterjee
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
23 May 2019
Preceded byDr. Ratna De (Nag)
ConstituencyHooghly
General Secretary BJP West Bengal
Assumed office
2020
President of BJP Mahila Morcha West Bengal
In office
2017–2020
Preceded byRoopa Ganguly
Succeeded byAgnimitra Paul
Member of Women's Commission West Bengal
In office
2014–2015
Personal details
Born
Locket Chatterjee

(1974-12-04) 4 December 1974 (age 47)[1]
Dakshineswar, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (2015-present)
Other political
affiliations		All India Trinamool Congress (till 2015)
Spouse(s)Prasenjit Bhattacharjee
Children1 son
ResidenceNarendrapur, West Bengal
Alma materJogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta (B.Sc)
OccupationActress, Dancer, Politician
CommitteesMember of Standing Committee Information Technology
AwardsKalakar Award
Signature
Websitehttps://bjpbengal.org/

Locket Chatterjee (born 4 December 1974) is a Bengali actress, politician and Member of Parliament for Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal, India. She is also a classical dancer. She completed her training in Bharat Natyam, Kathakali, Manipuri and Creative,[2] but is better known as an actress. Previously, she was the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha, the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal.[3] Now she is a General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal.

Early life[]

Chattarjee's father Sri. 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.[4] She grew up by the Maa Ganga (popular as Hooghly) on the northern outskirts of Calcutta's Dakshineswar area.[5]

She later studied at Jogamaya Devi College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta.[6]

Filmography[]

Films[]

Television[]

  • Maa Manasha (ETV Bangla)[5]
  • Bhalobasha Theke Jaye (ETV Bangla)[9]
  • Durgeshnandini, a TV adaptation of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel, directed by Tarun Majumdar. Locket played the role of Munnibai.[10]

Awards[]

  • Kalakar Awards[11]
  • 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[]

Locket Chatterjee forayed into politics as a member of AITC. She severed ties with AITC and joined BJP in 2015. She contested 2016 assembly elections from Mayureshwar in West Bengal but lost to Abhijit Roy of AITC. In 2017 she replaced Roopa Ganguly as the president of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal.

Member of Parliament[]

She contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hoogly Lok Sabha seat against Ratna De and won getting 6,71,448 (46.06%) votes.[12]

On 13 September 2019, She was selected as a Member of Standing Committee on Information Technology and on 9 October 2019 onwards she's serving as Member of Committee on Empowerment of Women.

In 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election she contested from Chunchura Seat and lost by whooping 18,879 votes to TMC candidate Asit Mazumdar.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Members : Lok Sabha". loksabhaph.nic.in. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Locket Chatterjee biography". itimes. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  3. ^ PTI. "Locket Chatterjee replaces Roopa Ganguly as WB BJP Mahila Morcha president". economictimes.indiatimes.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  4. ^ "At 16, I got married: Locket". The Times of India. 21 February 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Birthday Girl". Telegraph Kolkata. Calcutta, India. 25 November 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  6. ^ "History of the College - Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata, INDIA". www.jogamayadevicollege.org. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  7. ^ "I will never attempt a ____: Subrata Sen". The Times of India. 18 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  8. ^ "'I'm totally inhibition-free'". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 10 March 2011. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  9. ^ Nag, Kushali (15 October 2011). "Real to reel". Telegraph, Kolkata. Calcutta, India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  10. ^ Nag, Kushali (20 October 2010). "She's on a roll". Telegraph. Calcutta, India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  11. ^ "Kalakar award winners" (PDF). Kalakar website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
  12. ^ "West Bengal: BJP's Locket Chatterjee leads from Hooghly, Mamata's anti-land acquisition launch pad". Times of India. 23 May 2019.

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