A decade after he tasted his first electoral success, BJP leader and incumbent Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya is set to return to his native Sirathu to contest the upcoming Assembly election.
The constituency, located in Kaushambi, a backward district adjoining Prayagraj, was among the 325 seats that the BJP alliance won in 2017. Sitting MLA Sheetla Prasad “Pappu Patel,” had to be dropped to accommodate Mr. Maurya, whose relevance as the OBC face of the BJP government has been suddenly underlined by the recent rebellion of several OBC leaders including Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan, as the saffron party tries to keep its social calculus intact.
