Devendra Fadnavis

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Where they stand

Devendra Fadnavis on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.

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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.

1. Welfare

   −3.5

   Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision

   Placement confidence — medium

   ₹34,000 crore waived for 89 lakh farmers in 2017 and Ladki Bahin's ₹1,500 a month kept running — but verification struck 92 lakh names off that list by July 2026, and the promised ₹2,100 hike has not materialised

2. Markets

   +4.0

   State-led developmentMarket-led development

   Placement confidence — medium

   Davos MoUs worth about ₹15.7 lakh crore in 2025 and ₹30 lakh crore in 2026, the Samruddhi Expressway, the Trans Harbour Link and the metro build-out — infrastructure-heavy and investor-facing, with no privatisation programme

3. Recognition

   +3.0

   Formal equalityGroup remedies

   Placement confidence — medium

   Set up the Backward Class Commission in 2015; as Deputy CM under Shinde, backed the 2022 Banthia-data OBC local-body quota and the February 2024 Maratha SEBC quota; opened Kunbi certificates to Marathwada Marathas by the September 2025 Hyderabad Gazetteer order as CM

4. Nation

   +7.5

   PluralistMajoritarian

   Placement confidence — high

   In the Sangh ecosystem since 1989 via ABVP; the 2016 'chant Bharat Mata ki Jai or don't live here' line, a police panel on 'love jihad' in February 2025, and the Freedom of Religion Bill passed in March 2026 that his own cabinet called stricter than Gujarat's

5. Authority

   +7.5

   Civil libertiesStrong state

   Placement confidence — high

   The Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, passed in July 2025 against 'urban Naxalism' and now challenged by Congress and the CPI in the Bombay High Court — from the Chief Minister and Home Minister of the 2018 Elgar Parishad arrests

6. Culture

   +5.0

   Personal autonomyTraditional norms

   Placement confidence — medium

   The 2026 anti-conversion law and the interfaith-marriage panel, though he runs no moral-policing agenda on nightlife, dress or alcohol and cultivates a technocratic public image

7. Federalism

   −6.5

   CentreStates

   Placement confidence — medium

   Centre-aligned throughout; his government issued the orders making Hindi a third language in schools and withdrew them on 29 June 2025 under mounting opposition, days before the Thackeray cousins' first joint rally in two decades

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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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Nearest to them

• Narendra ModiBJP
• Himanta Biswa SarmaBJP
• Amit ShahBJP
• Yogi AdityanathBJP
• KAK. AnnamalaiInd.
• Eknath ShindeSHS

The figures