UP polls: Keshav Maurya, nine ministers lose polls

Uttar Pradesh assembly election 2022 results: Yogi won Gorakhpur (Urban) with a margin of more than 1 lakh votes. However, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya lost to Apna Dal (Kameravadi) leader Pallavi Patel (who contested on SP symbol) at Sirathu.

Updated on: Mar 11, 2022, 01:00:27 IST

By Umesh Raghuvanshi, Lucknow

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Chief minister Yogi Adityanath may have created a record of sorts by leading his government to a second consecutive term in Uttar Pradesh but his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, along with about nine other ministerial colleagues, have lost the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

BJP leader and Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya lost to Samajwadi Party leader Pallavi Patel in assembly elections 2022. (HT file photo)

Forty-seven ministers had contested the elections. Yogi won the poll with a heavy margin of over 1 lakh votes from Gorakhpur (Urban) seat. However, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya lost to Apna Dal (Kameravadi) leader Pallavi Patel (who contested on SP symbol) at Sirathu.

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Senior cabinet ministers who have lost the poll include minister for sugarcane development Suresh Rana and minister for rural development Rajendra Pratap Singh alias Moti Singh.

Rana and Singh lost to Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Ashraf Ali Khan and Samajwadi Party’s Ram Singh at Thana Bhawan and Patti assembly constituencies, respectively.

Minister of state (independent charge) for sports and youth affairs Upendra Tiwari lost to SP’s Sangram Singh at Phephna. Minister of state (independent charge) for basic education Satish Chandra Dwivedi lost to Mata Prasad Pandey at Itwa.

Ministers of state who have lost election include Ranvendra Pratap Singh, who lost to SP’s Usha Maurya; Girish Chandra Yadav lost to SP’s Mohd Arshad Khan.

Other ministers of state who lost the poll include Anand Swaroop Shukla (Bairia), Chandrika Prasad Upadhya (Chitrakoot) and Chhatrapal Gangwar (Baheri).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Umesh Raghuvanshi
Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.Read More