Keshav Prasad Maurya

Keshav Prasad Maurya is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and President of UP BJP. He has won the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Phulpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

On 11 January 2016, 12 BJP party leaders were expelled from the party for attacking Maurya one week earlier in Ballia, and two other cases were filed against two more BJP leaders.[2]

On 8 April 2016, on the first day of Chaitra, he was declared Bharatiya Janata Party chief of Uttar Pradesh,[3] India's most populous state. Like his party's top leader - Prime Minister Narendra Modi - Mr 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.

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