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Vijay Sampla 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. He won the Indian general election, 2014 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. He had held several key posts in the BJP's Punjab unit.