Keshav Prasad Maurya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Deputy CM of Uttar Pradesh
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Place of Birth: Sirathu, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Keshav Prasad Maurya
- Keshav Prasad Maurya (born 7 May 1969) is the deputy chief minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
- He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the 2014 Indian general elections from the Phulpur parliamentary constituency of Allahabad district and won it. On 8 April 2016, on the first day of Chaitra, he was declared Bharatiya Janata Party chief of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.
- A member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he also participated in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.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. Maurya 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 18 March 2017, he has been appointed as the deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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