"The Samajwadi Party leaders have an anti-Dalit and anti-women mentality. The Samajwadi Party is worried about the increasing representation of the deprived sections. The SP fears that if the elections are held now, it will suffer a significant loss in the urban bodies. Through a prominent party leader, the SP is attempting to raise obstacles in this situation," he remarked.

It was alleged that Maurya had obtained the license of a petrol pump on the basis of a fake degree and had also contested elections five times on the basis of this degree.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 6 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to highlight the achievements of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as he completes six months as CM in his second term on September 25.

Lucknow Jan 23 PTI Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday said desertion of OBC ministers and MLAs from the BJP will have no impact on the partys poll prospects in Uttar Pradesh as all sections of society trust Prime Minister Narendra ModiThey have left to fulfil their self-interest and not for any ideology the BJP leader saidRecently Swami Prasad Maurya Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini quit the state cabinet and the BJP to join the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party SP along with some legislatorsDismissing any challenge from rivals in the high-decibel seven-phase Uttar Pradesh assembly elections which begins next month Deputy Chief Minister Maurya said it was claimed that the BJP would be impacted in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but the party won and used the Hindi proverb khoda pahar nikle chuhiya to describe the claim makersHe claimed that like in 2019 after the assembly polls results are declared on March 10 neither Yadav Congress Priyanka Gandhi Vadra nor other so-called challengers to the BJP will be seenTaking a swipe at the leaders who deserted the BJP he asserted that no voter has gone with themThe desertion was seen in political circles as a major blow to the BJPs support among Other Backward Castes OBCs which form over 50 per cent of the states populationThe BJPs double-engine government has done a lot of work for the people and I say that in Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji there is a confluence of the upper castes backward castes and the scheduled castes Maurya saidHitting out at the defectors he said in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls the BJP had won 73 of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh and then these people were not with the BJPThe BJP won again in the 2017 assembly polls after the historic win of 2014 Maurya a prominent OBC face of the saffron party in the state said Swami Prasad Maurya Chauhan and Saini had left the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP and joined the BJP before the 2017 state polls Somebody joining the party or leaving it hardly makes a difference as the BJP is very strong at the booth level I dont feel that any voter has gone with them defectors They have gone out of their vested self-interest and not for any ideology Deputy Chief Minister Maurya saidThe BJP is running a number of campaigns and in the state under its government there has been an improvement in law and order and a number of developmental works have been done he saidEven if all rival parties come together the BJP will be stronger Maurya who is in the fray from Sirathu saidThe 2019 Lok Sabha elections is an example The SP BSP and RLD came together but the BJP and its allies won 64 seats in the state and got 51 per cent of votes Maurya saidOn who is the face of the BJP in the state polls -- Narendra Modi or Yogi Adityanath he said Chief ministers are generally the face of the party in a state The BJP is not a party of one state that it will remain confined there like the SP BSP or the Congress We are a pan-India party and there are prominent faces whose one programme will lead the party to victory in 100 seats he said adding we will win on the development work done On Yadav claiming that his rainbow coalition is becoming stronger with every passing day Maurya mockingly said Similar claims were made in 2019 Lok Sabha elections But when the results came it was khoda pahar niklee chuhiya There is no strength in his claims Maurya said Continuing with his attack on Yadav he said If he Yadav says that dynastic politics is socialism then this is equivalent to ridiculing socialism On the matter of Lord Krishna appearing in Yadavs dreams Maurya said If Lord Krishna had come in his dreams then I believe he must have told him to stop making efforts in 2022 and prepare for 2027 About Aparna Yadav the younger daughter-in-law of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav joining the BJP he said even before joining the BJP Aparnas point of view was quite similar to the BJPs view point on various issuesMaurya who recently raised issues related to Mathura said The BJP never linked temples with elections For the BJP prominent religious places are a centre of faith and not election issues It is the opposition which makes them an election issue For the Ram Janmabhoomi we used to say that we will make a grand temple for Lord Ram while the rivals had termed him as imaginary he saidMaurya also said that the elections will be fought on issues of development law and order and to make Uttar Pradesh an Uttam Pradesh and claimed that the BJP is going to win over 300 seatsHe discarded Yadavs promise of restoring the old pension scheme saying its merely a lollipop PTI NAV SNS ANB ANB

New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Wednesday took a swipe at former state chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav saying that though he claimed credit for several developmental works in the state he does not have the courage to fight the forthcoming assembly elections from these constituencies.

New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI): A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking SIT probe into the alleged involvement of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Minister of State (MoS) Ajay Mishra Teni in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

Lucknow Oct 24 PTI Dismissing any challenge from Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday mockingly called her Twitter Vadra and said it would be a big achievement for her if the Congress retains its seven seats in next years Assembly polls The senior BJP leader also brushed aside contest from the Samajwadi Party SP and the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP saying they should feel happy if they secure the number of seats they got in the 2017 polls Maurya also refused to accord any importance to the Aam Aadmi Party and Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM describing them as vote katwa spoiler of votes Asked as to who will be the CM face of the BJP in the elections Maurya who had lost the race to Yogi Adityanath last time sounded evasive saying it is his partys central leadership that decides after consultation with legislators Downplaying the announcement made by the Congress leader that her party will give 40 per cent tickets to women Maurya said it would be big achievement for the Congress if it repeats its feat of getting seven MLAs in the polls The Congress does not exist in UP In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls they got two MPs from UP and in 2019 Lok Sabha election it was further reduced to one MP he said Similarly in the 2017 UP Assembly elections the Congress got seven seats and in the 2022 polls if it manages to repeat the figure of seven then it will be a big achievement he told PTI in an interview Almost the same is the condition of the SP and the BSP whose tenure people have not forgotten and will never forget as corruption crime encouragement to mafia casteism and appeasement dominated Maurya said The SP had bagged 47 seats out of 403 in the previous elections while Mayawatis party had to settle for 19 seats Maurya said though both parties are talking about backwards Dalits and upper castes they are not well-wishers of anyone They only want to gain power exploit people and fill their pockets with public money Maurya alleged When asked as to whether he feels that Priyanka has established herself as an alternative to the BJP in UP Maurya said I think you media are seeing her more in the role of an opposition I call Priyanka Gandhi Vadraji as Twitter Vadra I dont think that barring those interested in getting their photographs clicked there is anyone in the Congress Yes they have an expertise in getting their photographs clicked be it Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Rahul Gandhi or any other leader of the Congress In the race of getting their photos clicked they are ahead of the SP and the BSP But these three parties have failed to make any place in publics heart he claimed On the question who will be the CM face of the BJP Maurya said Who am I to decide this We have our central leadership The central observers come and the leader of the legislative party is elected by newly-elected MLAs in the presence of central observers At present respected Yogi Adityanathji is our chief minister and Yogiji and we are making efforts to ensure victory for the BJP in the UP elections he added Maurya who as the BJP state unit chief had played a crucial role in mobilising support of the non-Yadav OBC castes for the party in the 2017 elections said there is no challenge to the BJP In the 2017 UP Assembly elections we won 325 seats and our endeavour is that how can we win more than 325 seats this time This is a challenge for us he said Most promises that the party had made to people have been fulfilled and this has been done in a span of three-and-half years he claimed adding that about one-and-half year was lost to COVID-19 The work done by this government will comprehensively outweigh the work done by the SP and the BSP in 15 years he claimed On SP chief Akhilesh Yadav claiming that his party will win 400 seats Maurya said How many seats was Akhilesh Yadav claiming to win in 2014 Lok Sabha polls and in the 2017 UP Assembly elections In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls he even dreamt of becoming the prime minister Eventually the claims of the SP were found to be hollow At the ground level their organisation has no one except criminals and mafia They do politics on the basis of caste and appeasement from which Uttar Pradesh has come out he said On the opposition parties resorting to soft-Hindutva Maurya said This is the ideological victory of the BJP PTI NAV SNS RDK RDK

Violence broke out in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday ahead of an event in Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s paternal village, where UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya was to be the chief guest. Farmers were holding protests since morning over the visit of Deputy CM Keshav Maurya and MoS Ajay Mishra. The farmers […]

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 31 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday announced that the next generation BrahMos missiles will be manufactured in his Parliamentary constituency Lucknow.