In politics today
Amit Shah
BJP
Union Home Minister since 2019, Minister of Cooperation since 2021, and the BJP's chief organiser before that. Article 370, the CAA and the three criminal codes are his bills — so is a cooperative sector built to compete with private capital, and the Northeast settlements that shrank AFSPA's map.
Furthest from the middle on Nation, toward Majoritarian.
Where they stand
Amit Shah on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−1.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
+1.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
−1.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
+8.5PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+8.5Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+4.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
−8.0CentreStates
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.
Not his subject: defends free-ration extension and Ayushman Bharat from the platform while articulating the targeted 'labharthi' frame and the anti-freebie line — the nearest thing to a programme of his own is the cooperative sector he says touches 30 crore people
The Ministry of Cooperation, created for him in July 2021, is deliberate third-sector industrial policy — PACS computerisation, cooperatives for seeds, organics and exports, Bharat Taxi launched 5 February 2026 against Uber and Ola — inside a government that sold Air India and passed the labour codes
The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs approved caste enumeration in the census on 30 April 2025, reversing a position he had held for a decade — against the EWS quota, the 50% cap, the 2025 Waqf Amendment, and his line that religion-based reservation is unconstitutional
Moved the Article 370 resolution and the J&K Reorganisation Bill on 5 August 2019, piloted the Citizenship Amendment Bill that December, told the Rajya Sabha on 20 November 2019 that the NRC would go nationwide — though CAA rules waited until 2024 and no national NRC followed
His 2019 UAPA amendment let the executive designate individuals as terrorists; 24,134 arrests between 2016 and 2020 yielded a conviction rate near 2%. The three criminal codes passed in ten days with 146 opposition MPs suspended — offset by the Bodo and ULFA settlements and a shrinking AFSPA map
Carries the government's positions — triple talaq criminalisation, opposition to same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court — without a social-conduct programme of his own; no prohibition, love-jihad or censorship drive with his name on it, his register security and organisation rather than morality
Moved a state into two union territories, built a Union ministry over cooperatives — a State List subject critics called an encroachment — sent the One Nation One Election bills to a joint committee in December 2024, pitched Hindi as the link language; the Northeast border agreements are the counterweight
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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