DK Shivakumar Chosen As Karnataka Congress Leader

DK Shivakumar has been elected leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Karnataka, setting him up to take the chief minister’s job. The move signals another round of internal power shifting inside India’s ruling-state politics, where party bosses still decide the real winners. It also underlines how little separates “democratic” process from backroom dealmaking in much of modern politics. Read more about this...