Will Keshav Prasad Maurya remain Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM after Assembly election debacle?
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Maurya, who is known to be BJP's OBC face, lost to Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel.
New Delhi: Even though the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recorded a massive win in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and paved the way for chief minister Yogi Adityanath to take the top office for the second consecutive term, all eyes are now on his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya who lost the assembly poll contest in Sirathu.
Maurya, who has said that he is a worker of the BJP and will do whatever the party tells him to do, lost to Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel by 7,337 votes.
While Maurya polled 98,941 votes, Patel, the elder sister of Union minister Anupriya Patel, got 1,06,278 votes.
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"With all humility, I accept the mandate of the people of Sirathu assembly constituency. I am thankful to each and every party worker and also express my gratitude towards the voters, who have voted for me. It is a happy moment for us that the BJP has formed the government once again due to the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh and in three other states," he had said after the defeat.