Known For: Indian film actress and politician
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, dancer, politician, television actor
Country: India
City: Kolkata
Date of Birth: Wednesday, 04 December 1974
Locket Chatterjee is an Indian actress, politician and former Member of Parliament for Hooghly, 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.
| BirthPlace | Kolkata |
| Education | Q1145306, Q31724551 |
| Wikipedia | Locket_Chatterjee |
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 to the University of Calcutta. 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.
