Cooperative Minister Swami Prasad Maurya is another key BSP strategist.
A long-time Mayawati loyalist, he is also the party's Uttar Pradesh president. Barring 2007, he has won election to the state assembly from the Congress stronghold of Rae Bareli.
Maurya is a shrewd political operator who constantly interacts with party workers in the field. If he wins the Lok Sabha election from Kushinagar, he will move to New Delhi, where clearly important assignments await him.
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