Locket Chatterjee

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| name = Locket Chatterjee

| office1 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| constituency1 = Hooghly

| term_start1 = 23 May 2019

| term_end1 = 4 June 2024

| predecessor1 = Ratna De

| successor1 = Rachna Banerjee

| office2 = General Secretary, BJP West Bengal

| term_start2 = 2020

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| office3 = President of BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal

| term_start3 = 2017

| term_end3 = 2020

| predecessor3 = Roopa Ganguly

| successor3 = Agnimitra Paul

| office4 = Member of Women's Commission, West Bengal

| term_start4 = 2014

| term_end4 = 2015

| birth_name = Locket Chatterjee

| birth_place = Dakshineswar, West Bengal, India

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| nationality = Indian

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| party = Bharatiya Janata Party {{small|(2015–present)}}

| otherparty = Trinamool Congress {{small|(till 2015)}}

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| spouse = Prasenjit Bhattacharjee

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| alma_mater = Jogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta (B.Sc)

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|dancer|politician}}

| residence = Narendrapur, West Bengal, India

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|12|4|df=y}}{{cite web |access-date=31 October 2019 |title=Members : Lok Sabha |url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=5043 |website=loksabhaph.nic.in}}

| committees = Member of Standing Committee, 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. She is also a classical dancer, having completed her training in Bharat Natyam, Kathakali, Manipuri and Creative dance.{{cite web |title=Locket Chatterjee biography |url=http://www.itimes.com/public/locket.chatterjee/bio |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127200909/http://www.itimes.com/public/locket.chatterjee/bio |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 January 2013 |publisher=itimes |access-date=20 May 2012}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/locket-chatterjee-replaces-roopa-ganguly-as-wb-bjp-mahila-morcha-president/articleshow/59742829.cms |title=Locket Chatterjee replaces Roopa Ganguly as WB BJP Mahila Morcha president |last=PTI |website=The Economic Times |access-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926144718/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/locket-chatterjee-replaces-roopa-ganguly-as-wb-bjp-mahila-morcha-president/articleshow/59742829.cms |archive-date=26 September 2017 |url-status=live}} 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.{{cite news |title=At 16, I got married: Locket |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/At-16-I-got-married-Locket/articleshow/7538149.cms |access-date=20 May 2012 |date=21 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005010311/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-02-21/news-interviews/28618738_1_film-industry-dance-tour-dance-school |archive-date=5 October 2013 |newspaper=The Times of India |url-status=live}} She grew up by the Maa Ganga (popular as Hooghly) on the northern outskirts of Calcutta's Dakshineswar area.{{cite news |title=Birthday Girl |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111009/jsp/graphiti/story_14600416.jsp |accessdate=20 May 2012 |newspaper=Telegraph Kolkata |date=25 November 2008 |location=Calcutta, India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004234244/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111009/jsp/graphiti/story_14600416.jsp |archive-date=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}

She later studied at Jogamaya Devi College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm |title=History of the College - Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata, INDIA |website=jogamayadevicollege.org |access-date=7 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403005423/http://jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm |archive-date=3 April 2019 |url-status=dead}}

Filmography

=Films=

Sannyasi Deshonayok (2020)
Kiriti Roy (2016)
Gogoler Kirti (2014)
Angurlata (upcoming)
Obhishopto Nighty (2014)
Kapurush Mohapurush (2013)
Oh Henry! (2013)
Chora Bali (2012)
Jibaner Rang (2012)
Kayekta Meyer Galpo (2012), directed by Subrata Sen{{cite news |title=I will never attempt a ____: Subrata Sen |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-18/news-interviews/31764859_1_indie-films-independent-films-theatrical-release |accessdate=24 May 2012 |date=18 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004232736/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-18/news-interviews/31764859_1_indie-films-independent-films-theatrical-release |archive-date=4 October 2013 |newspaper=The Times of India |url-status=dead}}
Le Halua Le (2012)
Goraay Gondogol (2012)
Khokababu (2012)
Streetlight (2011){{cite news |title='I'm totally inhibition-free' |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110310/jsp/entertainment/story_13690135.jsp |accessdate=24 May 2012 |date=10 March 2011 |location=Calcutta, India |work=The Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831114358/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110310/jsp/entertainment/story_13690135.jsp |archive-date=31 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Gosaibaganer Bhoot (2011)
Bye Bye Bangkok (2011)
Hello Memsaheb (2011)
Uro Chithi (2011)
Fighter (2011)
Poran Jaye Jolia Re (2009), as Raj's aunt
Greptar (2007)
Chander Bari (2007)
Minister Fatakeshto (2005)
Abhimanyu (2006)
Kranti (2006)
Debi (2005)
Shubhodrishti (2005)
Tyag (2004)
Badsha the King (2004)
Agni (2004)
Paribar (2004)
Mayer Anchal (2003)
Ektu Chhoa (2002)

=Television=

Maa Manasha (ETV Bangla)
Bhalobasha Theke Jaye (ETV Bangla){{Cite web |date=1 March 2020 |title=Real to reel |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/real-to-reel/cid/334972 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301160915/https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/real-to-reel/cid/334972 |archive-date=1 March 2020 |access-date=21 April 2022 }}
Behula as Sumitra Behula's mother (later replaced by Subhadra Chakraborty Mukherjee) (Star Jalsha)
Durgeshnandini, a TV adaptation of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel, directed by Tarun Majumdar. Locket played the role of Munnibai.{{cite news |title=She's on a roll |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101020/jsp/entertainment/story_13076751.jsp |accessdate=20 May 2012 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=20 October 2010 |location=Calcutta, India |first=Kushali |last=Nag |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005000340/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101020/jsp/entertainment/story_13076751.jsp |archive-date=5 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}

Awards

Kalakar Awards{{cite web |title=Kalakar award winners |url=http://kalakarawards.co/images/listofawardees.pdf |publisher=Kalakar website |accessdate=16 October 2012 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425155216/http://kalakarawards.co/images/listofawardees.pdf |archivedate=25 April 2012}}
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.{{cite news |title=Bengali actor Locket Chatterjee joins BJP |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bengali-actor-locket-chatterjee-joins-bjp/articleshow/46132041.cms |work=The Economic Times |agency=PTI |date=5 February 2015 |access-date=14 March 2024 |quote="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}} She severed ties with the Trinamool Congress and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015.{{cite news |title='Suffocated' Locket Chatterjee quits Trinamool, joins BJP |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/suffocated-locket-chatterjee-quits-trinamool-joins-bjp/ |work=The Indian Express |date=6 February 2015 |access-date=14 March 2024}} 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 Hooghly Lok Sabha seat against Ratna De and won getting 6,71,448 (46.06%) votes.{{cite news |title=West Bengal: BJP's Locket Chatterjee leads from Hooghly, Mamata's anti-land acquisition launch pad |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/bjps-locket-chatterjee-leads-from-hooghly-mamatas-anti-land-acquisition-launch-pad/articleshow/69460537.cms |date=23 May 2019 |work=The Times of India}} 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. 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.{{cite web |title=General Election to Parliamentary Constituencies: Trends & Results June-2024 Parliamentary Constituency 28 - Hooghly (West Bengal) |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS2528.htm |website=Election Commission of India |access-date=5 June 2024}}{{Cite news |title=Rachana Banerjee wins the Hooghly seat in Lok Sabha elections 2024; Defeats Locket Chatterjee |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/bengali/rachana-banerjee-wins-the-hooghly-seat-in-lok-sabha-elections-2024-defeats-locket-chatterjee/articleshow/110706925.cms |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257 |date=4 June 2024 |access-date=5 June 2024}}