Locket Chatterjee

Locket Chatterjee (born 4 December 1974) is an Indian actress, politician and 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, 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 Party in West Bengal.

Now she is a General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal.

Chatterjee'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.

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 to the University of Calcutta.

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.

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 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 Chuchura Vidhan Sabha seat and lost by a whopping 18,879 votes to AITC candidate Asit Mazumdar.