Federalism
Should Delhi or the states hold the deciding vote? This axis measures where you want power to sit — money, language, agencies and seats.
Centre
What this end means
India works when it moves as one. National missions outrun 28 separate bureaucracies, a shared language binds, and someone must be able to check a state government that goes rogue.
Positions from the quiz
- Promote Hindi as the common link language — one language binds the country
- National missions deliver better than 28 state bureaucracies
- Strict population-based seats — one person, one vote, wherever they live
- Hold all national and state elections together
States
What this end means
The government that runs your school, hospital and police station is your state — it should hold the money and the say. Delhi’s job is defence and currency, not your classroom’s language.
Positions from the quiz
- Language is the states’ domain — central promotion of Hindi is imposition
- States keep most revenue; the Centre keeps defence, currency, foreign policy
- Central agencies should need state consent to act — abolish Centre-appointed Governors
- States shouldn’t lose Lok Sabha seats for controlling their population
Sitting near the middle
Near zero means today’s balance feels right — a strong Union with functioning states.
Commonly misread
This is not a north-versus-south map. Hindi-belt decentralists and southern centralists both exist — the axis asks which capital you trust with the deciding vote, not where you live.