Senior Punjab BJP leader Vijay Sampla resigned as chairperson of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC).

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Senior Punjab BJP leader Vijay Sampla resigned as chairperson of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC). Sampla was elected as MP from Hoshiarpur in 2014, earning the distinction of being the first Dalit leader of the saffron party from Punjab to make it to Lok Sabha. He was subsequently appointed as NCSC chairperson in February 2021. He joined BJP in 1998, and began his political career the same year as the sarpanch of his native village Sofi Pind in Jalandhar Cantonment.


     

     

     

 

     


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