Locket Chatterjee
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Chatterjee in 2019
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| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 23 May 2019 – 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Ratna De |
| Succeeded by | Rachna Banerjee |
| Constituency | Hooghly |
| General Secretary, BJP West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 2020 | |
| President of BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal | |
| In office 2017–2020 | |
| Preceded by | Roopa Ganguly |
| Succeeded by | Agnimitra Paul |
| Member of Women's Commission, West Bengal | |
| In office 2014–2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Locket Chatterjee (1974-12-04) 4 December 1974 (age 49)[1] Dakshineswar, West Bengal, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (2015–present) |
| Other political affiliations | All India Trinamool Congress (till 2015) |
| Spouse | Prasenjit Bhattacharjee |
| Residence(s) | Narendrapur, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | Jogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta (B.Sc) |
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| Committees | Member of Standing Committee, Information Technology |
| Awards | Kalakar Award |
| Signature |  |
| Website | bjpbengal |
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Locket Chatterjee (born 4 December 1974) is an Indian actress, politician and former Member of Parliament for Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency), from 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, in Tollywood. Previously, she was the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha, the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata PartyinWest Bengal.[3] Now she is a General SecretaryofBharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal.
Chatterjee's father Anil Chatterjee was a purohitofDakshineswar 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]
Chatterjee forayed into politics as a member of All India Trinamool Congress.[12] She severed ties with the Trinamool Congress and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015.[13] 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 MorchainWest Bengal.
She contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hooghly Lok Sabha seat against Ratna De and won getting 6,71,448 (46.06%) votes.[14]
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.
In2021 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.
She lost to Rachna BanerjeeofAITC in the 2024 Indian general election by a margin of 76,853.[15][16]
"When I joined TMC I had said I want to work. Now I am quitting it as I feel suffocated there and can't work," Chatterjee said after joining the party in the presence of BJP state president Rahul Sinha
