However, the senior leaders of his rival faction, including Phagwara Corporation Mayor Arun Khosla, BJP Block(rural) President Inderjit Khalyan and Mehtan village Sarpanch Manjinder Singh Mehat held a press conference here yesterday, accusing Sampla of pressurising local police to register case against supporters of local BJP MLA cum CPS Som Parkash.
Sampla in a press conference on Saturday had accused the police of implicating his supporters in a cooked up case at the behest of "somebody".