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Sampath was among the number of BJP activists who were arrested for staging a protest against Siddaramaiah on August 18.
A video of the incident in which Sampath is purportedly seen throwing eggs on Siddaramaiah’s car has gone viral.
However maintaining distance from Sampath, BJP legislator M P Appachu Ranjan claimed that he was not a BJP activist but a Congress worker.
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According to the Ranjan, Sampath is in the construction industry and works as a bar bender.
Sampath’s father Sundaramurthy was in the BJP.
Meanwhile, Siddaramaiah and his loyalists are mulling taking out a ‘Madikeri Chalo’, a march to Madikeri, the district headquarter town of the district.