In politics today
D.K. Shivakumar
INC
Karnataka's Chief Minister since June 2026, after three years as Deputy CM and Karnataka Congress president since 2020. Co-architect of the state's five welfare 'guarantees' — free electricity, ₹2,000 a month to women — and the first Vokkaliga to lead Karnataka's government since 2004.
Furthest from the middle on Welfare, toward Expansive state provision.
Where they stand
D.K. Shivakumar on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−7.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
+3.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+4.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−5.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
−3.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
0.0Personal 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.
Co-architect as Deputy CM (2023-26) and now Chief Minister of Karnataka's five 'guarantees' — Gruha Jyothi's 200 free electricity units, Gruha Lakshmi's ₹2,000 a month to women heads of household, free bus travel under Shakti, the Anna Bhagya rice scheme and Yuva Nidhi's unemployment allowance
Holds the Bengaluru development portfolio and courts global tech investment through events like the 2025 Global Investors Meet, from a leader whose own real-estate and infrastructure business background sits alongside heavy state welfare spending
Backs SC/ST and OBC quota politics as Karnataka Congress's president since 2020, but as the state's leading Vokkaliga politician has been notably cautious about implementing the 2015 caste-survey findings chaired by H. Kantharaju, which his own community argues undercounts it — a group-remedy record complicated by his own caste's stake in the count
Congress secularism by party line — opposes the Waqf Amendment and CAA implementation in Karnataka — without a distinct personal record beyond that
Has faced his own money-laundering and disproportionate-assets cases since 2020, which Congress calls central-agency targeting; no distinguishing security or surveillance position beyond that defensive posture
No moral-policing or personal-autonomy record
As Chief Minister since June 2026, sworn in after Siddaramaiah's mid-term exit under a Congress power-sharing arrangement, he leads Karnataka's running complaint that it receives far less from the divisible tax pool than it contributes — the donor-state grievance that is Karnataka Congress's sharpest Centre-state argument
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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