UP Election Results 2017: Like Modi, Maurya could go from tea-seller to CM

Maurya, 48, has been a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteer

Keshav Prasad Maurya, BJP, Celebrations, Elections

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UP BJP President Keshav Prasad Maurya with party workers celebrates the party’s victory in the assembly elections at the party office in Lucknow

Archis Mohan New Delhi

Last Updated : Mar 11 2017 | 6:05 PM IST

If Kalyan Singh was the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP’s) OBC icon in the 1991 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the wake of the Mandal-Kamandal discourse, the party’s choice fell upon Keshav Prasad Maurya to fill that space for the 2017 polls.

With BJP having clinched UP, Maurya could be in the running to be the chief minister.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP found support among non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits in UP. For 2017, it went about consolidating this support by giving more representation to these castes, particularly the non-Yadav OBCs, in the party leadership.