(News18)
UP BJP President Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was considered one of the frontrunners for the post of Chief Minister, may be out of the reckoning. The party’s national president, Amit Shah, on Thursday said he had given Maurya the responsibility of “selecting the next Chief Minister”.Maurya is like Prime Minister Narendra Modi in more ways than one. A dedicated RSS worker who rose through ranks, sold tea at his father’s tea stall as a child and hails from an OBC background. At just 47, Maurya has emerged as one of the tallest leaders in the UP BJP in a short amount of time. He contested the UP Assembly polls three times — 2002, 2007 and 2012 — before being elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 from the Phulpur constituency, a seat once represented by Jawaharlal Nehru.
