Who is Keshav Prasad Maurya, UP's joint Deputy CM?
The newly appointed Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya (48) is the sitting BJP MP from Phulpur near Allahabad. He was once a chaiwallah and a newspaper vendor before he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Notably, Maurya contested and won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Phulpur, where the BJP had never won earlier.