- BJP leader and former Union Minister Vijay Sampla has been appointed as the chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes for the second time.
- Sampla had resigned from the post of NCSC president before the Punjab elections and contested the elections.
- The official order for his appointment was issued by President Ram Nath Kovind.
- A prominent Dalit politician from Punjab, Sampla started his political career in 1998 as Sarpanch of Sofipind village of Jalandhar Cantonment.
- He has also served in the Punjab Government.
- He was the chairman of Punjab Khadi Board from 2008 to 2012 and chairman of Punjab State Forest Development Corporation in 2014.
- He was then elected to the Lok Sabha from Hoshiarpur and became a Union Minister in 2015.
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