In politics today
Eknath Shinde
SHS
Thane strongman and Anand Dighe's successor, who split the Shiv Sena in June 2022, ran Maharashtra until December 2024 and is now Deputy Chief Minister. India's largest women's cash transfer on one side, 'Balasaheb's Hindutva' and the NDA on the other.
Furthest from the middle on Welfare, toward Expansive state provision.
Where they stand
Eknath Shinde on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−6.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
+1.5State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+4.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
+6.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+5.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+4.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+1.0CentreStates
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.
Launched Ladki Bahin in July 2024 — ₹1,500 a month, peaking above 2 crore women, the country's largest such transfer by headcount, before post-verification e-KYC trimmed the rolls — plus Ladka Bhau stipends and Anandacha Shidha ration kits, rolled out months before the election
His first cabinet restored the Aarey metro car shed and cleared the bullet train and Metro-3 that the MVA had stalled; the ₹1.54 lakh crore Vedanta-Foxconn plant went to Gujarat on his watch in September 2022
Passed the 10% Maratha SEBC quota in February 2024 and issued the Kunbi certificate orders that followed the Justice Sandeep Shinde committee (no relation), conceding to the Jarange agitation rather than resisting it
'Balasaheb's Hindutva' is his whole claim on the party name: NDA alignment, support for the 2025 Waqf Amendment, and a standing charge that Uddhav abandoned the ideology
His government first tabled the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill against 'urban Naxalism' in July 2024, though he has no separate record of his own on policing or civil liberties
Shiv Sena social traditionalism carried forward without a distinct personal agenda; the record on autonomy questions is thin
Runs a Marathi-asmita party entirely inside the NDA: he presses Maharashtra's project and investment claims but has never taken a Centre-state fight to Delhi
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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