D.K. Shivakumar is current MLA from Janakapura assembly constituency Doddalahalli Kempegowda Shivakumar was born in Kanakpura, Mysore state in 1962. He is a member of the Indian National Congress party. In 2008, he first contested the Vidhan Sabha elections from Kanakpura assembly constituency. Under Siddharamaiah government he held the important Ministry of Energy, from 2014- 2018. Later in the H.D.Kumaraswamy government he became the minister of Water Resources in the Government of Karnataka.