Locket Chatterjee, BJP’s Maximum Visual Woman Candidate In Bengal

One of the most 5 MPs roped into Bengal elections as a candidate, Locket Chatterjee lately is essentially the most visual lady chief within the BJP’s Bengal group. The actor-turned flesh presser has been with the party since 2015, after a short lived affiliation with the Trinamool Congress.

The 47-year-old had surrender the ruling party a 12 months earlier than 2016 state meeting election, pronouncing she was once feeling “suffocated”, particularly after the Saradha and the Roxe Valley Ponzi schemes, during which many leaders of the party have been allegedly concerned.

“I had joined the Trinamool to paintings however positive incidents and cases made me really feel suffocated. Personally, other people within the BJP are doing a little optimistic paintings and thus, I made up our minds to enroll in the party,” she had advised the media.

The BJP had given her a large welcome, dubbing her “Didi-r Locket” to put across her closeness to Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Ms Chatterjee, on the other hand, didn’t open her account within the first election contested on a BJP price ticket. In 2016, she contested the meeting elections from Mayureshwar however misplaced to Abhijit Roy of Trinamool Congress.

In 2019, the BJP fielded her from Hooghly the place she beat sitting Congress MP Ratna De (Nag) by means of greater than 70,000 votes. Her marketing campaign was once novel, with Locket Chatterjee driving across the constituency on a scooter and a bicycle.  

After successful Hooghly — which incorporates the prime profile Meeting seat of Singur — there was once no having a look again. Over time, Ms Chatterjee has emerged as a vocal member, sparring along with her former colleagues of Trinamool over topics as various as “minimize cash”, political violence within the state and sexist behaviour.   

Within the run-up to the election, she even took on Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee over her caution to the BJP a few “wounded tigress” being extra unhealthy than a wholesome one.

“There are wounded tigresses in each Bengal house. They are going to reply at the EVM field,” Locket Chatterjee had retaliated.

Regardless of her becoming a member of the party a long way forward of maximum Trinamool leaders — two years forward of Mukul Roy — the BJP had stored her at hands’ period. The important thing publish of the manager of the party’s ladies’s wing had long gone every other actor — Rupa Ganguli, who had performed “Draupadi” within the vastly fashionable ’80s tv serial “Mahabharat”.

After serving as a member of the parliamentary committee   on Empowerment of Girls, she was once made the overall secretary of the party’s ladies’s wing in Bengal and sooner or later, the overall secretary of the state.

The Hooghly MP was once roped in for Bengal elections together with 4 others, together with Union minister Babul Supriyo, as appropriate Bengali faces within the coming elections.

She has been fielded from Chinsurah which is a part of the Hooghly constituency that she represents in parliament. However information of her candidature was once greeted with protests by means of the BJP as it disadvantaged a in the community fashionable BJP employee, Subir Nag, of the price ticket. Mr Nag has, on the other hand, hit the streets to marketing campaign with Locket Chatterjee.  

Ahead of becoming a member of politics, Locket Chatterjee was once a number of the key actors in Tollywood, operating in round 30 motion pictures. One in every of her hits was once referred to as ‘Fighter’.