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Nitish Kumar

JD(U)

Bihar Chief Minister across two decades and both alliances. The 2023 caste survey, prohibition and women's-quota experiments, delivered through repeated coalition switches that keep his politics deliberately unfixed.

Furthest from the middle on Recognition, toward Group remedies.

Where they stand

Nitish Kumar on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.

  • Welfare

    −6.0
    Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision

  • Markets

    −2.0
    State-led developmentMarket-led development

  • Recognition

    +8.5
    Formal equalityGroup remedies

  • Nation

    −2.0
    PluralistMajoritarian

  • Authority

    +3.5
    Civil libertiesStrong state

  • Culture

    +3.0
    Personal autonomyTraditional norms

  • Federalism

    +2.0
    CentreStates

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

    −6.0
    Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision

    Placement confidencemedium

    Jeevika self-help groups, girls' cycle and uniform schemes, and ₹2 lakh grants to 94 lakh poor families announced off the 2023 caste survey

  2. Markets

    −2.0
    State-led developmentMarket-led development

    Placement confidencelow

    Bihar's ask is central transfers, not market reform: the Special Category Status demand rather than any privatisation or nationalisation programme

  3. Recognition

    +8.5
    Formal equalityGroup remedies

    Placement confidencehigh

    Ran the Bihar Caste Survey 2023, then raised reservations to 65% and sought Ninth Schedule cover after the Patna High Court struck it down; pioneered Mahadalit and EBC sub-categorisation

  4. Nation

    −2.0
    PluralistMajoritarian

    Placement confidencelow

    Broke with the BJP in 2013 over Modi's elevation and passed an anti-NRC assembly resolution in 2020 — while returning to the NDA in 2017 and again in 2024

  5. Authority

    +3.5
    Civil libertiesStrong state

    Placement confidencemedium

    Prohibition enforcement generated roughly a crore cases, and the Bihar Special Armed Police Act 2021 allows search without warrant; offset by his post-2005 police-reform record

  6. Culture

    +3.0
    Personal autonomyTraditional norms

    Placement confidencehigh

    Total liquor prohibition since 2016 is the strongest autonomy restriction by any sitting CM — paired with 50% women's reservation in panchayats and the police, a first

  7. Federalism

    +2.0
    CentreStates

    Placement confidencelow

    Special Category Status is his signature demand, but as an NDA partner he backs central schemes and has not opposed the ONOE push

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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