In politics today
Omar Abdullah
JKNC
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister 2009-15, detained under the Public Safety Act after Article 370 went, and back in office since October 2024 — heading a government that does not control its own police, with statehood restoration as its whole programme.
Furthest from the middle on Federalism, toward States.
Where they stand
Omar Abdullah on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−4.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−1.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
−2.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−8.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
−6.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
0.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+8.5CentreStates
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.
His first budget in March 2025, ₹1.12 lakh crore, gave 200 free electricity units to Antyodaya families and free bus travel to women — well short of the 12 free cylinders and one lakh jobs the 2024 manifesto promised
Runs a centrally financed economy with little room to set policy: no new taxes in his budgets, a tourism and horticulture revival push, and no stated position on ownership or industrial structure
Inherited a quota regime that cut open merit to about 30% and has spent his term trying to trim it back — a cabinet sub-committee reporting in June 2025 and rule changes cleared that November, after his own MP protested outside his residence
The November 2024 assembly resolution for restoration of special status, opposition to the 2025 Waqf Amendment, and repeated warnings that collective punishment of Kashmiris is the wrong answer to terror
Detained under the Public Safety Act himself in 2020 and a standing AFSPA critic who promised in 2012 it would end in his tenure and could not deliver — against the 2010 summer in which forces under his government killed over a hundred protesters
No moral-policing agenda and no stated position on personal-autonomy questions; the record on this axis is thin
Statehood restoration is his entire programme, pressed against an LG who keeps police and public order and an unresolved Transaction of Business Rules fight; he ruled out a second Article 370 resolution post-Pahalgam, then escalated — Jantar Mantar, 'Article 370 means nothing without statehood,' July 2026
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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