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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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| image = File:Ram Chandra Maurya.jpg
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| constituency = [[Majhawan Assembly constituency|Majhawan]]
| office = Member of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 1997
| term_end = 2002
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| birth_date = 16 January 1950
| birth_place = Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
| nationality = Indian
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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| occupation = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
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'''Ram Chandra Maurya''' was an Indian politician and member of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] from [[Majhawan Assembly constituency]]. He was a member of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and was elected to 13th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly via 1996 Assembly elections. Maurya was a resident of [[Mirzapur district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. His daughter-in-law [[Suchismita Maurya]] also represented the Majhawan Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-2017/25-of-candidates-contesting-in-last-phase-of-up-polls-are-crorepatis/article17446531.ece|title=Candidates contesting in last phase of Uttar Pradesh elections are crorepatis|website=The Hindu|accessdate=22 September 2023|archive-date=22 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922191625/https://www.thehindu.com/elections/uttar-pradesh-2017/25-of-candidates-contesting-in-last-phase-of-up-polls-are-crorepatis/article17446531.ece|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/former-bjp-mla-from-up-shot-at-robbed-in-front-of-gurgaon-hotel-26458.html|title=Former BJP MLA from UP shot at, robbed in front of Gurgaon hotel|website=India TV|accessdate=22 September 2023|archive-date=14 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414203454/http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/former-bjp-mla-from-up-shot-at-robbed-in-front-of-gurgaon-hotel-26458.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/mirzapur-15671370.html|title=सुचिस्मिता को मिला साथ ,पहली बार में ही विजय|website=Dainik Jagran|accessdate=22 September 2023|archive-date=22 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922191623/https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/mirzapur-15671370.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Political career==
Ram Chandra Maurya was born on 16 January 1950 to Sarju Prasad in [[Mirzapur district]] of Uttar Pradesh in an [[Other Backward Class]] [[Hindu]] family. He completed his post graduate degree and married Vidyawati Devi in 1967. He had one son and three daughters with her. Maurya's daughter-in-law [[Suchismita Maurya]] contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on the ticket of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and was victorious. Maurya was also an industrialist besides being an active politician. In September-October 1996 elections, he was elected from [[Majhawan Assembly constituency]], for the first time, as a candidate of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. In this election, he got 54,472 votes and defeated Bhagwat Pal of [[Bahujan Samaj Party]].<ref name=up>{{cite web|url=https://uplegisassembly.gov.in/Members/pdfs/13th_vs_sadashya_parichay.pdf#page=269|title=13th Vidhan Sabha members|website=Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|accessdate=20 September 2023|archive-date=16 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816063628/http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/Members/pdfs/13th_vs_sadashya_parichay.pdf#page=269|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2013, he was shot in leg and looted by unknown assailants outside a mall, where he was waiting in his BMW car.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/former-up-mla-shot-at-robbed-in-gurgaon/|title=Former UP MLA shot and robbed|website=Indian express|accessdate=22 September 2023|archive-date=20 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920101231/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/former-up-mla-shot-at-robbed-in-gurgaon/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002]]
[[Category:People from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:People from Mirzapur district]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians]]
[[Category:1950 births]]
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