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'Troubleshooter' D K Shivakumar: Congress' last 'resort' in Karnataka

Shivakumar has always been in the Congress since he joined the Youth Congress when he was in college. He was general secretary of the Youth Congress in the state between 1983 and 1985

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D K Shivakumar, the Congress's chief troubleshooter, had been appointed president of its Karnataka unit on March 11

Aditi Phadnis

4 min read Last Updated : Jul 05 2020 | 9:32 PM IST

D K Shivakumar has just taken over as chief of the Karnataka unit of the Congress. Who is he? And does it even matter?

When he filed his affidavit for the 2018 Karnataka Assembly election, Shivakumar and his wife declared assets amounting to Rs 730 crore. He listed his profession as "social worker". He could have written anything, but in south Karnataka (as elsewhere in India) the currency of power is land and caste. Shivakumar is a Vokkaliga, born into an agricultural family from the same region as H D Deve Gowda, the tallest leader of the Vokkaligas in the state.

Topics : D K Shivakumar Congress Karnataka

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