Locket Chatterjee, Who Built BJP Poll Machinery From Ground Up, Trailing

Locket Chatterjee had forayed into politics with the TMC before severing ties in 2015 and joining the BJP.

In battleground West Bengal, the BJP, following its emphatic performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, made its intentions clear right at the beginning - that they would go for the jugular. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the BJP was not just looking at forming the government in the Mamata Banerjee-ruled state but also take the tally beyond 200 seats. And, therefore, they didn't leave any stone unturned. The BJP decided to field at least four parliamentarians, a not-so-usual occurrence. One of them was Locket Chatterjee, who contested from Bengal's Chinsurah, an assembly segment in her own Lok Sabha constituency. Born in West Bengal's Dakshineswar, the 46-year-old actor-turned-politician has been instrumental in building the BJP's election machinery from ground up in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) bastion. However, and very interestingly, she, too, forayed into politics with the TMC before severing ties in 2015 and joining the BJP. Ms Chatterjee contested her first election, unsuccessfully, on a BJP ticket from Mayureshwar - an assembly constituency in the state's Birbhum district - during the 2016 assembly polls that the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC swept with 211 seats.