In politics today
K. Chandrashekar Rao
BRS
Telangana's founding Chief Minister, 2014–2023, and Leader of the Opposition since. Rythu Bandhu and Dalit Bandhu moved cash at a scale no state had tried, alongside a ₹1 lakh-crore irrigation bet and an anti-Delhi federalism he renamed his party to carry nationally.
Furthest from the middle on Welfare, toward Expansive state provision.
Where they stand
K. Chandrashekar Rao on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−8.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
0.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+7.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−4.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+5.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+2.0Personal 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.
Rythu Bandhu ₹10,000 per acre a year with no landholding cap, Dalit Bandhu ₹10 lakh per family from 16 August 2021, Aasara pensions, Rythu Bima's ₹5 lakh cover, 24-hour free farm power — generous and regressive, uncapped transfers paying the largest landowners most
State-led in the fiscal sense — Kaleshwaram, free power, untied farm cash — while TS-iPASS clearances and Hyderabad's IT and pharma boom courted private capital hard; Telangana passed the State GST Act first, April 2017
His 2017 bill raising Muslim (BC-E) reservation to 12% and ST to 10% passed the Assembly and went for Ninth Schedule cover the Centre refused; Dalit Bandhu is the only caste-targeted capital grant — but the quota never took effect and the 2014 survey's caste findings were never published
Moved the Assembly's resolution against CAA, NPR and NRC on 16 March 2020 and governed with AIMIM as a partner — against TRS support for the Article 370 abrogation and ~₹1,200 crore of state money on the Yadadri temple rebuild
Treated ~48,000 striking TSRTC employees as self-dismissed in October 2019, calling the strike an 'unpardonable crime'; celebrated the December 2019 Disha encounter the Sirpurkar Commission found staged; governed from his farmhouse with the Assembly barely sitting
Personal ritual as state policy — the 2015 Ayutha Chandi Maha Yagam, vaastu-driven demolition and rebuild of the Secretariat — but no prohibition, no anti-conversion or love-jihad law, no moral-policing agenda
Renamed TRS as Bharat Rashtra Samithi on 5 October 2022 to take state-rights politics national, boycotted the August 2022 NITI Aayog Governing Council over 'systematic erosion' of federalism, attacked Finance Commission devolution, and fought Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan over held-up bills
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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