NDA regime has replaced scams with welfare schemes: Vijay SamplaSampla, the Punjab unit chief of the BJP, made the remarks while highlighting the Centre's achievements so far during a programme organised...
11 Jun, 2017, 11.05 PM IST
BJP Punjab president Vijay Sampla offers to resignThe Union minister said that he's ready to resign if the BJP top brass doesn't amend its decision. Sampla sent his resignation to BJP natio...
17 Jan, 2017, 10.35 AM IST
Navjot Singh Sidhu part of BJP, insists Punjab BJP chief Vijay SamplaThe latest salvo was fired by Sampla when he accused SAD of treating railway minister Suresh Prabhu and him shoddily at the inauguration of...
21 Jul, 2016, 12.33 AM IST
Centre has released Rs 196 crore for SC students scholarship: Vijay SamplaBadal had said that Centre was not releasing post-matriculation scholarship scheme for Scheduled Castes (SC) students while the state gover...
31 May, 2016, 11.05 PM IST
Vijay Sampla appointed Punjab BJP chiefBJP has banked on 55-year-old Sampla, who comes from a humble background and risen in the party over the years, to consolidate Dalit voters...
08 Apr, 2016, 03.00 PM IST
Union Minister Vijay Sampla alleges his supporters being harassed by copsSampla alleged that "cooked-up" cases were being registered against his supporters at the behest of some local leader(s). However he did no...
27 Mar, 2016, 04.24 PM IST
Union Minister Vijay Sampla pitches for value-based educationMaintaining that there were deficiencies in the current curriculum, Sampla said human values and wisdom should be incorporated in the curri...
31 Jan, 2016, 01.31 PM IST
Rs 250-crore venture capital fund set up for welfare of SC entrepreneursUnion Minister Vijay Sampla today said that while his department would provide Rs 200 crore to the Industrial Finance Corporation of India.
09 Aug, 2015, 06.26 PM IST
Government blacklists three Madhya Pradesh-based NGOs: Union Minister Vijay SamplaMinister Vijay Sampla said that three NGOs located in Madhya Pradesh were defaulters and they have been blacklisted after due process.
06 Aug, 2015, 07.04 PM IST
Conviction rate in PoA cases on decline between 2011 and 2013While a total number of 39,346 cases were registered under the PoA in 2013, 33,592 and 33,652 cases were recorded in 2012 and 2011 respecti...
04 Aug, 2015, 04.48 PM IST
Students eligibe for scholarships irrespective of Aadhaar card"Necessary instructions have also been issued to ensure that no eligible beneficiary for the scholarship suffers for want of Aadhaar," Vija...
17 Mar, 2015, 03.58 PM IST
Budget session: Conviction rate in cases under SC/ST declined between 2011-13Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla said the conviction rate of cases booked under the act in 2011 was 30 per...
24 Feb, 2015, 05.32 PM IST
UPA regime responsible for drug problem in Punjab: Vijay SamplaUnion Minister of state Vijay Sampla has charged the previous UPA regime with being responsible for prevailing drug menace in Punjab.
18 Jan, 2015, 05.13 PM IST
SAD-BJP alliance to continue in future: Vijay SamplaHoshiarpur MP dismissed reports that the alliance was under any clouds and that it would continue in the same way in the 2017 Assembly elec...
14 Nov, 2014, 04.37 PM IST
No rift between BJP, SAD in Punjab: Vijay Sampla’s u-turnPunjab’s deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said the SAD-BJP alliance will post a record victory in the Delhi assembly elections.
13 Nov, 2014, 05.35 AM IST
Vijay Sampla, the emerging Dalit leader in PM Narendra Modi's CabinetSampla’s political journey began soon after he returned from Saudi Arabia. In 1998, he was elected sarpanch of Jalandhar’s Sofi village.
10 Nov, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Vijay Sampla, once a plumber becomes a ministerAfter Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Sampla, a prominent Dalit leader and a first-time MP, is the second LS MP from Punjab to become a Union Ministe...
09 Nov, 2014, 03.27 PM IST