In politics today
Hemant Soren
JMM
Jharkhand Chief Minister since 2019 — resigned January 2024, returned that July after roughly five months in ED custody — and re-elected with a bigger majority. Tribal land and identity claims — Sarna code, 1932 domicile, 77% reservation — pressed alongside a large central-dues fight with Delhi.
Furthest from the middle on Recognition, toward Group remedies.
Where they stand
Hemant Soren on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−8.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−5.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+9.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−7.5PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
−5.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
0.0Personal 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.
Maiya Samman pays 56 lakh women ₹2,500 a month, about ₹1,415 crore per transfer, after he more than doubled it in December 2024; Abua Awas commits ₹16,000 crore to three-room houses, and the Old Pension Scheme was restored in 2022
Jharkhand's ask is royalty and transfers, not reform: the 2021 Act reserving 75% of lower-paid private jobs for locals, defence of the CNT and SPT land Acts, and reversal of the 2017 land-acquisition amendments
The November 2022 Bill raising reservation to 77%, returned unsigned by the Governor and still not law; the 2020 assembly resolution for a separate Sarna religious code; the 1932 khatian domicile Bill the Governor also returned, and the House passed again
JMM voted against CAA and Jharkhand refuses NRC; he rejects the 'infiltration' framing of Santhal Pargana outright, and the Sarna code is a refusal to be counted as Hindu at all
The Assembly's 2021 Mob Lynching Bill still awaits the Governor's assent; his first cabinet withdrew the Pathalgadi sedition cases in December 2019; the PMLA case that jailed him five months (bail June 2024) remains live — a special court rejected his discharge plea in June 2026
Tribal customary practice rather than any stated position on personal-autonomy questions; the 2022 liquor-retail nationalisation — since partly reversed and now the subject of a CBI/ED 'scam' probe — was a revenue move, not a moral one
Claims ₹1.36 lakh crore in central PSU dues — mostly land compensation, plus coal royalty — set up a recovery panel in March 2025; his domicile and reservation Bills sit blocked between Raj Bhavan and 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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