Maurya was a resident of Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
[1][2][3] 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.
In this election, he got 54,472 votes and defeated Bhagwat Pal of Bahujan Samaj Party.
[4] In 2013, he was shot in leg and looted by unknown assailants outside a mall, where he was waiting in his BMW car.