Locket Chatterjee

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Indian film actress and politician

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imageLocket Chatterjee (cropped).jpg
captionChatterjee in 2019
honorific_prefix
nameLocket Chatterjee
office1Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
constituency1Hooghly
term_start123 May 2019
term_end14 June 2024
predecessor1Ratna De
successor1Rachna Banerjee
office2General Secretary, BJP West Bengal
term_start21 June 2020
office3President of the BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal
term_start324 July 2017
term_end31 June 2020
predecessor3Roopa Ganguly
successor3Agnimitra Paul
office4Member of Women's Commission, West Bengal
term_start42014
term_end42015
birth_placeDakshineswar, West Bengal, India
birth_date
death_date
partyBharatiya Janata Party (2015–present)
otherpartyTrinamool Congress (till 2015)
committeesMember of Standing Committee, Information Technology
spousePrasenjit Bhattacharjee
alma_materJogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta (B.Sc)
occupation
residenceNarendrapur, West Bengal, India
awardsKalakar Award
signatureMP Locket Chatterjee Signature.jpg
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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. She grew up by the Maa Ganga (popular as Hooghly) on the northern outskirts of Calcutta's Dakshineswar area.

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

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards

  • Kalakar Awards
  • 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. She severed ties with the Trinamool Congress and joined Bharatiya Janata Party 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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

References

References

  1. "Member Detail".
  2. Ghosh, Abantika. (4 March 2024). "Among BJP’s West Bengal winners, a tribal leader, businessman, software expert". The Indian Express.
  3. "Locket Chatterjee biography". itimes.
  4. PTI. "Locket Chatterjee replaces Roopa Ganguly as WB BJP Mahila Morcha president".
  5. (21 February 2011). "At 16, I got married: Locket". [[The Times of India]].
  6. (25 November 2008). "Birthday Girl". Telegraph Kolkata.
  7. "History of the College - Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata, INDIA".
  8. (18 May 2012). "I will never attempt a ____: Subrata Sen". [[The Times of India]].
  9. (10 March 2011). "'I'm totally inhibition-free'". The Telegraph.
  10. (1 March 2020). "Real to reel".
  11. Nag, Kushali. (20 October 2010). "She's on a roll". The Daily Telegraph.
  12. "Kalakar award winners". Kalakar website.
  13. (5 February 2015). "Bengali actor Locket Chatterjee joins BJP". The Economic Times.
  14. (6 February 2015). "'Suffocated' Locket Chatterjee quits Trinamool, joins BJP". The Indian Express.
  15. "LOCKET CHATTERJEE".
  16. (25 July 2017). "Locket Chatterjee replaces Roopa Ganguly as the president of BJP’s women’s wing in West Bengal". Scroll.in.
  17. (2 June 2020). "BJP reshuffles Bengal unit with eye on 2021 poll battle". The Times of India.
  18. "LOCKET CHATTERJEE".
  19. (23 May 2019). "West Bengal: BJP's Locket Chatterjee leads from Hooghly, Mamata's anti-land acquisition launch pad". [[The Times of India]].
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  22. "General Election to Parliamentary Constituencies: Trends & Results June-2024 Parliamentary Constituency 28 - Hooghly (West Bengal)".
  23. (4 June 2024). "Rachana Banerjee wins the Hooghly seat in Lok Sabha elections 2024; Defeats Locket Chatterjee". The Times of India.

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