{"id":337251,"date":"2022-04-27T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=337251"},"modified":"2022-04-27T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:48:23","slug":"vijay-sampla-appointed-ncsc-chairperson-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vijay-sampla-appointed-ncsc-chairperson-for-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Sampla appointed NCSC chairperson for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi : <\/strong>BJP leader and former Union minister Vijay Sampla has been appointed as the chairperson of the <strong>National Commission for Scheduled Castes<\/strong> (NCSC) for a second time.<br \/>\nThe official order for his appointment was issued by President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sampla had resigned as the NCSC chairman ahead of the Punjab elections and had contested the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Sampla, a prominent Dalit face of Punjab, began his political career in 1998 as the Sarpanch of Sofipind village in Jalandhar Cantonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : BJP leader and former Union minister Vijay Sampla has been appointed as the chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) for a second time. The official order for his appointment was issued by President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday. Sampla had resigned as the NCSC chairman ahead of the Punjab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":337252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337253,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337251\/revisions\/337253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/337252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}