Sooryavansham actress left film career for politics, defeated BJP candidate from this seat

Sekar Chandra
Sooryavansham actress left film career for politics, defeated bjp candidate from this seat

The results of the lok sabha elections (Lok Sabha election 2024) have come, in which bjp has data-faced a big defeat in Kolkata. The actress of Sooryavansham film has also defeated locket chatterjee from Hooghly by a huge margin.Sooryavansham actress left film career for politics, defeated bjp candidate from this seat.

Yesterday i.e. on june 4, the whole of india was waiting for the result of the 2024 lok sabha elections (Loksabha election 2024). In this lok sabha election, West bengal contributed 42 lok sabha seats in the 543-member Parliament. bengali superstar Rachna Banerjee, trinamool congress (TMC) candidate, has defeated BJP's sitting mp locket chatterjee from Hooghly parliamentary constituency. But do you know who Rachna Banerjee is, let us tell you.

Born on 2 october 1972 as Jhumjhum Banerjee, rachana is a famous indian actress who has worked mainly in bengali and Odia films. She has also worked in some Tamil, telugu and kannada films. Her only bollywood film is Suryavansham, released in 1999, starring amitabh bachchan in the lead role. In this film, rachana played the role of Gauri. Apart from amitabh, she shared screen space with superstars prosenjit chatterjee and Chiranjeevi.Ahead of the 2024 lok sabha elections, rachana quit films to focus on politics. However, she is hosting the famous bengali non-fiction television game show Didi No. 1. She has been its anchor since 2011. trinamool congress chief and West bengal Chief minister mamata banerjee also appeared as a guest on the show in March. After appearing on the show, mamata banerjee fielded rachana as a TMC candidate from Hooghly.

Rachna defeated Locket Chatterjee

Talking about Rachna's rival, locket chatterjee is also an actress turned politician. She entered politics with trinamool congress, but soon left the party and joined bjp in 2015. She served as the President of bjp Mahila Morcha in West bengal from 2017 to 2020. In 2019, she became an mp from Hooghly lok sabha seat, but her term is now over, as she has lost to Rachna.

Locket Chatterjee lost by so many votes

While Rachna Banerjee got more than 7 lakh votes i.e. a total of 7,07,744 votes. At the same time, locket chatterjee got about 6 lakh 25 thousand votes i.e. a total of 6,25,891 votes. The difference in votes between the two was more than 75 thousand i.e. 76,853.

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