In politics today
Uddhav Thackeray
SS(UBT)
Maharashtra Chief Minister 2019-22 at the head of an alliance with Congress and the NCP; since the 2022 split — in which the Election Commission awarded Shinde the party name and symbol — leader of the smaller Sena faction that stayed with him. Marathi-first federalism and a pluralist turn, argued from a party built on the opposite.
Furthest from the middle on Federalism, toward States.
Where they stand
Uddhav Thackeray on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−5.5Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−3.5State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+4.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
0.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+2.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+3.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+6.5CentreStates
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.
The ₹2 lakh Mahatma Jyotirao Phule farm-loan waiver in December 2019, the Shiv Bhojan thali cut from ₹10 to ₹5 and past one crore plates by mid-2020, and COVID-era health cover extended to every Maharashtra resident
Stayed the Aarey car shed, slowed the bullet train, and pushed 80% local hiring on a party still tied to Mumbai's builder economy and its trader base
His government defended the Maratha SEBC quota in the Supreme Court until it fell in May 2021, and he has backed the caste census since joining the INDIA bloc — from the party that fought Mandal in 1990
Concrete acts since 2019 are pluralist — refused NRC, opposed the Waqf Amendment, defended the Places of Worship Act — but the party has never disavowed its own continuously declared Hindutva identity, itself said-and-done evidence; the two cancel
His aides and kin are the target of the ED and PMLA action he denounces — from a tenure that jailed Arnab Goswami in November 2020 and a party built on street enforcement
The Sena's Valentine's Day and dance-bar moral policing is his inheritance, cut against by his own government's Mumbai 24x7 nightlife policy under Aaditya Thackeray
'Maharashtra's rights' over projects moved to Gujarat, the June 2025 agitation with Raj Thackeray that forced withdrawal of the Hindi third-language orders, and opposition to central agency action against state leaders
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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