In politics today
Chandrababu Naidu
TDP
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP chief, the 1990s' original reform-era moderniser — Hyderabad's tech push then, Amaravati and investor-first governance now, with welfare recalibrated rather than expanded.
Furthest from the middle on Markets, toward Market-led development.
Where they stand
Chandrababu Naidu on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−4.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
+7.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+3.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−2.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+2.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+1.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+5.0CentreStates
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.
The 1990s 'CEO CM' who took World Bank structural-adjustment loans and cut subsidies now runs on SuperSix: ₹1,500/month to women, free bus travel, ₹20,000/yr to farmers
Built HITEC City on foreign capital, wrote Vision 2020 with McKinsey, privatised state PSUs, and AP under him was among the first states to raise the retrenchment threshold to 300 workers
Backs Kapu reservation and BC enumeration and continues AP's 4% Muslim reservation, but governs in a developmentalist rather than quota-forward idiom
Left the NDA in 2018 and returned in 2024; publicly reassures minorities and keeps AP's minority schemes while his MPs voted for the 2025 Waqf Amendment
Built one of India's most extensive citizen databases through the Praja Sadhikara Survey and Aadhaar-linked state data hub; became an agency-overreach critic only after his own 2023 arrest
Not a culture warrior — promised phased prohibition in 2024 without moving on it, and has no moral-policing agenda
Broke the NDA in 2018 over Special Category Status for AP and still presses bifurcation dues, though he has softened as a governing coalition partner
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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