In politics today
Akhilesh Yadav
SP
Samajwadi Party chief and former UP Chief Minister. The PDA (backward–Dalit–minority) coalition pitch and the caste-census demand, argued from a governing record of expressways, laptops and pensions.
Furthest from the middle on Recognition, toward Group remedies.
Where they stand
Akhilesh Yadav on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−5.5Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−3.5State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+9.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−6.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
−3.5Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+1.5Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+4.0CentreStates
The record, axis by axis
Every placement is scored on what was said and done — manifestos, legislation, the governing record — and calibrated against the same trade-offs the quiz asks about.
Laptop distribution, Samajwadi pension and the 108 ambulance service in office; now backs old-pension restoration and a legal MSP
Lohiaite opposition to privatisation and the labour codes, but built the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on PPP terms and courted investors as CM
PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) was his entire 2024 platform: caste census, 50%-cap removal, private-sector reservation, 'jiski jitni sankhya bhari'
Opposes CAA-NRC and UCC on a Muslim-Yadav base — hedged since 2022 by temple visits, Parshuram statues and studied quiet on the Ram Mandir consecration
Attacks 'thok do' encounter and bulldozer policing — from a party whose own 2012-17 term drew goonda-raj criticism and mishandled the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
Personally modern, but no LGBTQ or autonomy agenda and a rural-conservative base that Mulayam's remarks on rape law still define for many voters
Opposes ONOE and central-agency use against opposition states, without the structural anti-Centre incentive a southern party has
And where do you stand?
Answer the same trade-offs yourself and get your seven readings, on the scales you just read.
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