evidence: The rise and rise in fortunes of DK Shivakumar, the man being probed by ED The arrest of Shivakumar, known as the Congress’ troubleshooter, on Tuesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a case of alleged money laundering has brought to focus this rise as it held within it the elements that would also lead him to his present juncture. Promoted in the Youth Congress around 1979 after a split in the local party, DK Shivakumar would go on to win his first election to the Karnataka assembly in 1989 and become a fixture for the Congress party in the state, earning him admirers and detractors in equal measure.