Malavalli: In a reported incident, senior Congress leader and Water Resources Minister D.K.Shivakumar (DKS) tripped while alighting from a campaign vehicle at Malavalli last night.

Shivakumar, who is on a campaign trail for coalition candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy, was alighting from his campaign vehicle near the house of JD(S) leader Chandrasekhar on Malavalli- Mysuru road at about 10 pm last night, when he accidentally tripped and fell on the vehicle. But he soon recovered and moved on, it is learnt.