Locket Chatterjee

She was previously the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha, the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal. Since then she served as the General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal.

• Name — Locket Chatterjee • Office2 — Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha • Constituency2 — Hooghly, West Bengal • Term Start2 — 23 May 2019 • Term End2 — 4 June 2024 • Predecessor2 — Ratna De Nag • Successor2 — Rachna Banerjee • Office3 — General Secretary of BJP West Bengal • Term Start3 — 1 June 2020 • Office4 — President of BJP Mahila Morcha, West Bengal • Term Start4 — 24 July 2017 • Term End4 — 1 June 2020 • Predecessor4 — Roopa Ganguly • Successor4 — Agnimitra Paul • Office5 — Member of West Bengal Commission for Women • Term Start5 — 2014 • Term End5 — 2015 • Birthplace — Dakshineswar, West Bengal, India • Born — 4 December 1974 • Party — Bharatiya Janata Party (since 2015) • Other Party — Trinamool Congress (till 2015) • Committees — Member of Standing Committee on Information Technology • Education — Jogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta (B.Sc) • Occupation — * Actress • politician • dancer • Awards — Kalakar Award

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.

• Maa Manasha (ETV Bangla) • Bhalobasha Theke Jaye (ETV Bangla) • 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.

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.

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.