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Lokmat Parliamentary Award: BJP MP Locket Chatterjee wins best woman Parliamentarian award

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: March 14, 2023 6:31 PM

Best woman Parliamentarian award of the year was given to BJP MP Locket Chatterjee. Former president of India Ram ...

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Best woman Parliamentarian award of the year was given to BJP MP Locket Chatterjee. Former president of India Ram Nath Kovind presented the award to Locket Chatterjee.

Locket Chatterjee is an Indian actress, politician and Member of Parliament for Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal, India. 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.

The Lokmat Parliamentary Awards are given to outstanding Parliamentarians — four each from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — for their contribution in eight different categories. The awards were conceived in 2017 to recognise and encourage positive work done by parliamentarians every year and were conferred during 2017-2019 to winners by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. The awardees are  selected by a distinguished jury headed by NCP president Sharad Pawar. Past winners include former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sharad Pawar, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav, Sitaram Yechury, Jaya Bachchan, Supriya Sule, Nishikant Dubey, Hema Malini, Bharti Pawar, Sushmita Dev, Meenakshi Lekhi and Rajni Patil. 

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