India, Nov. 8 -- The Congress appears to be on a slippery surface in Karnataka where a fresh round of confrontation has commenced between erstwhile Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the present incumbent D.K. Shivakumar. The battle is not only threatening to endanger an otherwise stable government, but has all the ingredients of diminishing the Congress influence in the state. Although there are multiple reasons for this development, yet the most provocative is the CD controversy surrounding Siddaramaiah and a young Kerala woman that has been ignited by a local TV channel, whose owner is understood to be close to several Karnataka politicians including D.K. Shivakumar.

The CD pertains to something that allegedly happened in 2011 but has re...