Locket Chatterjee replaces Roopa Ganguly as state BJP women wing chief

Tribune News Service

Kolkata, July 24

Locket Chatterjee, film actress-turned- politician, has become the new BJP Mahila Morcha president of West Bengal replacing Roopa Ganguly.

Ganguly, known for enacting the role of Draupadi in the hugely popular TV soap based on the Mahabharata epic, is a member of the Rajya Sabha. She was nominated by the President to fill up the seat vacated by cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu who quit the Upper House following differences with the BJP’s leadership.

Roopa Ganguly recently triggered a controversy when she made a comment about the safety of women in Bengal. An FIR was filed against her for her controversial remarks.

Dilip Ghosh, president of the West Bengal unit of the BJP, however, said Ganguly had been replaced by Chatterjee since the former was spending a lot of time in Delhi in the light of her responsibilities as an MP.

Both Locket Chatterjee and Roopa Ganguly had contested in the 2016 Assembly elections in the state but were unsuccessful.

Both women have an aggressive persona when it comes to political activities.

However, it is widely believed that their aggressive public persona is modelled on Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.