Bhartiya Janta party (BJP) leader Keshav Prasad Maurya has again got his birth in yogi Adityanath’s government after losing in the assembly elections which were held recently.
Keshav prasad Maurya who was a deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh has lost against Apna Dal(Kamravadi) Leder Pallavi Patel, the sister of union minister Anupriya Patel, who heads Apna Dal(Sonelal) by a margin of more than 7000 votes.
As it’s a very big win by Apna Dal (Kamravadi) leader Pallavi Patel and a very shameful defeat for Keshav prasad Maurya who was a deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Maurya who was also a part of RSS and VHP-Bajrang Dal from an early age, holding the designation of Nagar Karyavah and Vhp Panth Sangathan Mantri, among others.
While being active in gauraksha (cow protection) movement. In the BJP, Maurya has been the regional (Kashi) coordinator of the backword class cell and BJP Kishan Morcha.
He has contested the 2002,2007 election, he lost 2002 and 2007 elections but won 2012, and was the MLA from sirathu assembly constituency before getting elected as MP from Phulpur seat in 2014 with a high margin of five lakh votes.
Maurya who holds a very big image in the eastern up region. Bhartiya Janta party is still shock with the result’s as it was unexpected.
As this place is a hometown for Keshav prasad Maurya, it was his constituency from where he Belong’s there were very less chances of defeat from Sirathu seat from Kushambi district before the elections it as a called a safe seat for BJP due to Maurya’s face but after losing in the election’s everyone wants answer for defeat.
There was some hot news prevailing in the BJP members that there is a rift between the current cm yogi Adityanath and the deputy cm Keshav prasad Maurya who is considered as the net big face after prime minister Narendra Modi but yogi government have proved this wrong and fake as he has again got the responsibility to lead as one of the ministers in Bhartiya Janta party.
However, the BJP decision to keep Pushkar Singh Dhami as Uttarakhand chief minister despite the loss indicated that Maurya could keep his deputy cm post even after the loss.
Another chief ministerial stint for Dhami was seen in the BJP as a departure from the past. In 2017, Prem Kumar Dhumal – the father of Union minister Anurag Thakur – failed to win his seat in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election.
Many argue that this loss cost him the chief ministerial chair in the state. The BJP won the assembly polls, and Jai Ram Thakur emerged as a dark horse in the absence of the principal claimant to the chief ministerial chair in the state assembly.
Maurya has now joined the elite list of the BJP leaders who were rewarded with a ministerial berth despite electoral losses. Such names include the late Arun Jaitley and Union minister Smriti Irani.
Jaitley lost the Lok Sabha election in 2014 from the Amritsar seat in Punjab but went on to become the most influential minister in the first Narendra Modi government. This was Jaitley’s only Lok Sabha election.
Smriti Irani, too, lost the 2014 Lok Sabha election, to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Amethi seat. She was, however, made a union minister. Both Jaitley and Irani were members of the Rajya Sabha. Smriti Irani avenged her 2014 loss in the 2019 Lok Sabha election defeating Rahul Gandhi.
Pushkar Singh Dhami’s case is unique. Dhami won the Khatima assembly seat in 2012 and 2017 in Uttarakhand. He became the youngest chief minister of Uttarakhand at 45 in July last year as the BJP changed three chief ministers in four months.
Defending the BJP government in the 2022 assembly election, Dhami lost his seat after 10 years. But he did not lose his chief ministerial chair.
In the case of Maurya, he returned to the Sirathu seat after 10 years. He had won the assembly election in 2012
The Constitution does not bar a non-legislator from becoming a minister. In fact, in the Constituent Assembly debate on this question, drafting committee chairperson BR Ambedkar passionately argued against the suggestion.
He said, “It is perfectly possible to imagine that a person who is otherwise competent to hold the post of a minister has been defeated in a constituency for some reason which, although it may be perfectly good, might have annoyed the constituency, and he/she might have incurred the displeasure of that particular constituency.”
Published By: Manan Khurana
Edited By: Subbuthai Padma
