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Who is Keshav Prasad Maurya?

Keshav Prasad Maurya is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who serves as the Deputy Chief Minister (CM) of Uttar Pradesh. He is also an MP from the Phulpur parliamentary constituency of Prayagraj.
 
Maurya was born on May 7, 1969, in Kaushambi district to Dhanapati Devi and Late Shyamlal Maurya. His father was a farmer and had a tea shop in Sirathu Nagar and his mother is a housewife. Maurya has two brothers -- Sukh Lal and Rajendra Kumar and three sisters -- Sumitra Devi, Kamlesh Kumari and Asha Devi.
He got married in 1985 to Rajkumari Devi and the couple has two sons Ashish Kumar Maurya and Yogesh Kumar Maurya.
 
The politician attended junior high school in Sirathu Nagar and then secondary school in Osa. To support the family during the financial crisis, he used to sell newspapers and help his father at the tea stall. Later, he studied Hindi Literature at the Hindu Sahitya Sammelan in Prayagraj.
 
Career
 
Since 1980s, Keshav Prasad Maurya has been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). He was instrumental during the cow-protection and Ram Janmabhoomi movements. He also led the group of Kar Sewak for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in 1990.
 
In 2012, Maurya was the first BJP MLA from Sirathu Tahseel. As BJP's Phoolpur MP, he headed the ministries of public works department (PWD), food processing, entertainment tax and public enterprises department.
 
He was elected as an MP from the Phulpur constituency in 2014, prior to that, he had contested the 2002, 2007 and 2012 assembly elections. Maurya was appointed the state president of BJP in UP in 2016. A year later, he became the deputy CM of the state.

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Earlier, SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav also launched an attack against the administration in the stone pelting incident in Sambhal and alleged that the administration had deliberately created unrest

Updated On: 30 Nov 2024 | 12:29 PM IST

He accused the opposition party of misleading the Backwards and Dalits by allying with the BSP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and the Congress in 2024

Updated On: 24 Nov 2024 | 12:49 PM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party leads in 4-5 out of the 9 Lok Sabha seats that went to bypolls in Uttar Pradesh

Updated On: 23 Nov 2024 | 2:17 PM IST

UP is set to witness bypolls on 10 Assembly seats. While BJP is looking to get its mojo back, the SP is on a high after success in Lok Sabha elections

Updated On: 25 Aug 2024 | 11:33 PM IST

The post followed a meeting of the UP Deputy CM with BJP party President JP Nadda in Delhi on Tuesday. Nadda also held a separate meeting with the Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief Bhupender Chaudhary.

Updated On: 17 Jul 2024 | 3:57 PM IST

The Desawari cannot withstand waterlogging, making the undulating slopes of Mahoba ideal for its cultivation

Updated On: 17 May 2024 | 11:52 PM IST

Maurya said the Congress has 'conspired to snatch the rights of ?OBCs, SCs and STs ?and give these to Muslims'

Updated On: 26 Apr 2024 | 1:47 PM IST

Opposition leaders are making the allegation of central probe agencies being misused as many of them are facing charges such as that of corruption and know they will eventually end up behind bars

Updated On: 03 Apr 2024 | 10:11 AM IST

"We are also in favour of caste-wise census and our senior leaders are also in favour of it but it is a matter for the central government to conduct the caste-wise census," said Keshav Prasad Maurya

Updated On: 30 Nov 2023 | 11:35 AM IST

Calling it a day full of "emotions", PM Modi said on Wednesday that he feels "blessed" and that it is his good fortune that he will be witnessing such a historic occasion

Updated On: 26 Oct 2023 | 11:28 AM IST

The gangster was a co-accused in the murder case of BJP MLA Brahmhadatt Dwivedi

Updated On: 07 Jun 2023 | 7:21 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav should not try to gain sympathy by claiming that he can get arrested.

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 1:38 PM IST

UP Deputy CM said the state has the best policies in every field, including security, and many big investment proposals have come through the Global Investors Summit-2023 (GIS-2023) here

Updated On: 11 Feb 2023 | 6:11 PM IST

He further said that SP appeared to have no faith in democratic values and also accused the party and its leaders of an anti-Dalit and anti-women mentality

Updated On: 15 Dec 2022 | 10:30 AM IST

Maurya said that the BJP government has done the work of ending the terror of Azam Khan

Updated On: 29 Nov 2022 | 10:23 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday called Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav the "kingpin" of criminals, rioters and mafia.

Updated On: 01 Oct 2022 | 8:11 AM IST

UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya has hit back at Akhilesh Yadav's advice to him to cross over on pattern of what happened in Bihar

Updated On: 08 Sep 2022 | 6:51 AM IST

Before the Mahakumbh in 2025, the airport in Prayagraj will be made an international facility, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has said

Updated On: 03 Sep 2022 | 7:07 PM IST

He was recently appointed the the BJP legislature party leader in the Legislative Council in place of Swatantra Dev Singh

Updated On: 22 Aug 2022 | 8:50 AM IST

'Akhilesh Yadav jee, you are not able to tolerate the growing stature of any leaders of the backward class. You want that there should be no bigger OBC leader, and you are anti-backward,' Maurya said.

Updated On: 24 Jul 2022 | 12:06 AM IST