In politics today
Tejashwi Yadav
RJD
Bihar's Leader of the Opposition and twice its Deputy Chief Minister. The 2023 caste survey and the 65% quota raise came out of his term; the 2025 campaign added the largest cash-and-jobs offer any state opposition has made — and a promise to unwind Nitish's liquor ban.
Furthest from the middle on Recognition, toward Group remedies.
Where they stand
Tejashwi Yadav on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−8.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−4.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+9.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−7.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
−3.5Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
−1.5Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+3.0CentreStates
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.
The 28 October 2025 'Tejashwi Pran' manifesto: ₹2,500/month to women, a job-per-family law within 20 days, ₹25 lakh health cover, 200 free units, OPS restored — against a disputed claim of 5 lakh appointment letters
Lohiaite provision, not ownership: RJD voted against the farm laws, opposes the labour codes, wants MSP in law and OPS back — but Bihar's ask is Special Category Status, not privatisation or nationalisation
Released the Bihar Caste Survey on 2 October 2023 and drove the 65% quota raise; demanded Ninth Schedule cover after the Patna High Court struck it down on 20 June 2024; joined the AIMPLB's March 2025 Patna dharna against the Waqf Amendment
Vowed to consign the Waqf Amendment Act to the dustbin; RJD's Manoj Jha took it to the Supreme Court in April 2025; opposes CAA-NRC — carrying the politics Lalu founded by arresting Advani's rath in 1990, hedged by 'A to Z'
Campaigns against the SIR roll revision and central-agency use; the 2025 manifesto promised relief for those jailed under prohibition — from the party of 1990s 'jungle raj', and facing land-for-jobs charges ordered framed on 9 January 2026
The only major leader promising to roll a prohibition back: the 2025 manifesto commits to reviewing Bihar's liquor law and ending the toddy ban — no gender-autonomy or LGBTQ agenda beside it
Special Category Status is his standing attack line on Nitish; he wants the Union to clear the state's quota law — but Bihar gains from population-based delimitation and has no language or entrance-exam grievance: a claim on Delhi's money, not its power
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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