Keshav Prasad Maurya

Keshav Prasad Maurya
Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Assumed office
19 March 2017
Cabinet Minister
Public Works, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, Public Enterprises
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Assumed office
23 March 2017
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Assumed office
9 September 2017
MP of Lok Sabha for Phulpur
In office
26 May 2014 – 21 September 2017
Personal details
Born (1969-05-07) 7 May 1969
Sirathu, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Rajkumari Devi
Parents Shyam Lal Maurya (father)
Dhanpati Devi Maurya (mother)
Residence Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma mater Bachelor of Arts
Occupation Businessman, Politician
As of December 17,, 2016
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Keshav Prasad Maurya (born 7 May 1969) is an Indian politician who is the current Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Phulpur parliamentary constituency of Allahabad district and won it.[1]

On 8 April 2016, on the first day of Chaitra, he was declared Bharatiya Janata Party chief of Uttar Pradesh,[2] India's most populous state. Like his party's top leader - Prime Minister Narendra Modi - Maurya sold tea in his youth at his father's stall in their village. A member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he also participated in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. [3]

Born in 1969, in Sirathu in Kausambhi district, adjoining Allahabad, Maurya went on to study Hindi Literature at the Hindu Sahitya Sammelan in Allahabad. Hailing from a Kushwaha farming family, Maurya sold tea and newspapers during his childhood. Maurya Family runs Petrol Pump & Schools in Sirathu Area & Also Holding the Director position of Kamdhenu Logistics private limited with his son Yogesh Maurya.

Though he keeps a low-profile and is not popular outside the Kaushambi-Allahabad-Varanasi belt, Maurya’s pro-Hindutva image, and his promotion could be a sign of things to come. He has been associated with the RSS and the VHP-Bajrang Dal from an early age, holding the posts of Nagar Karyawah and VHP Pranth Sanghathan Mantri, among others. While being active in the gauraksha (cow-protection) movements, he also participated in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. In the BJP, Maurya has been the regional (Kashi) coordinator of the backward class cell and the BJP Kisan Morcha.

He has contested the 2002, 2007 and 2012 assembly elections and was the sitting MLA from Sirathu assembly constituency before getting elected as MP from the Phulpur seat in 2014 with a thumping five lakh votes and over 52 per cent votes.

As on March 18, 2017 he has been appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Political career

He became the first MLA of BJP from Sirathu Tahseel in the year 2012 and It was the first time when any MLA of BJP was elected from Sirathu Tahseel. And after two and half year he became the MP from Phoolpur from BJP. He got the ministries of public works department (PWD), food processing, entertainment tax and public enterprises department.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  2. ↑ Rashid, Omar (8 April 2016). "Keshav Prasad Maurya: 'Gareebi, Sangh aur OBC'". The Hindu.
  3. ↑ "Keshav Prasad Maurya - NewsPatrolling.com - Best news cum content syndication site online". www.newspatrolling.com.
  4. ↑ "CM Yogi Adityanath keeps home, revenue: UP portfolio allocation highlights", Hindustan Times, 22 March 2017
  5. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath allocates portfolios, keeps home", Live Mint, 23 March 2017
Lok Sabha
Preceded by
Kapil Muni Karwariya		 Member of Parliament
for Phulpur
2014 – 2017		 Succeeded by
Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel
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