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Keshav Prasad Maurya is a prominent leader from the Bhartiya Janata Party and is the deputy CM of Uttar Pradesh. Born on May 7, 1969, he contested the 2014 general elections from the Phulpur parliamentary constituency of Allahabad district and won it. He contested the upcoming UP polls from the Sirathu constituency and lost. However, he was again made Deputy Chief Minister. He has been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-Bajrang Dal from an early age, holding the posts of Nagar Karyawah and VHP Pranth Sanghathan Mantri, among others. Maurya shares the deputy CM post of UP, with Dinesh Sharma, as there are two deputy CMs in the state. Maurya recently made headlines with his tweet, "Mathura ki taiyari hai", which also got a response from an opposition leader from BJP's rival party Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.