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About Vijay Sampla
- Vijay Sampla (born 6 July 1961) served as Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in India from 2014 to 2019.
- He is a former member of parliament from Hoshiarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).
- He won the 2014 Indian general election as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
- He did not contest the 2019 elections.
- Sampla, a leader from Punjab, has worked as farm hand, labourer and plumber earlier in his life.Sampla, who studied till Class 10, joined the party in 1998.
- He was the second cabinet minister from Punjab after Akali Dal's Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
- His political journey began after he was elected the Sarpanch or head of his Sofi village (Jalandhar District).
- He had held several key posts in the BJP's Punjab unit.When he was a 27-year-old bereaved dalit, Sampla was trying to find his feet against the oppressive landlords of Jalandhar's Sofi Pind.
- His brother and he were left to fend for themselves after their father's death and Sampla went off to Saudi Arabia in 1979 to work for a plumbing company.On his swearing-in as BJP's first minister from Punjab in NDA-II, he said, "I often recall one incident that shaped my life.
- While I was in Saudi Arabian city of Damam, I was asked to clean human excreta and repair a bathroom.
- I was young and flatly refused to do the cleaning part while telling the building owner that I was a plumber.
- On my insistence, the man put on plastic gloves and cleaned the muck himself.
- It taught me the difference between oppression against dalits and the will to work", Sampla recalled.
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