In politics today
Vijay
TVK
TVK's founder, sworn in as Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister on 10 May 2026 after ending six decades of DMK-AIADMK rule. A ₹6,000 crore crop-loan waiver and 717 liquor shops shut near schools and temples mark his first 100 days — as the CBI's Karur stampede probe into him continues.
Furthest from the middle on Welfare, toward Expansive state provision.
Where they stand
Vijay on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−7.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
+2.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+5.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−6.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+3.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+2.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+6.0CentreStates
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 100-day report marked 17 August 2026 lists a ₹6,000 crore crop-loan waiver (₹4,000/tonne sugarcane and ₹2,750/quintal paddy incentives), the Thaaimaaman Thanga Mothiram gold-ring scheme for newborns, an expanded state breakfast scheme and skill training reaching 12 lakh students — real, delivered welfare spending, though the manifesto's flagship ₹2,500/month payment to women is not yet confirmed as rolled out
The August 2026 Vetri Tamil Nadu Investors' Conclave at ITC Grand Chola claimed ₹1 lakh crore in investment commitments three months into office — early investor courting alongside, not instead of, the crop-loan waiver and welfare spending, with no privatisation or ownership move yet on record
Continues to brand the government's ideology 'Secular Social Justice' inside the Dravidian quota-defending tradition, but the 100-day record shows no specific reservation, caste-census or promotion action to score beyond that framing
Formed a governing coalition with the INC and the Dalit-based VCK and Indian Union Muslim League (120 MLAs-elect: TVK 107, INC 5, CPI 2, CPI(M) 2, VCK 2, IUML 2) while refusing any alliance with the BJP — a concrete coalition-composition choice rather than rhetoric alone — continuing to reject Hindutva politics without a personal position yet on CAA or the Waqf Amendment
Stood up 65 anti-narcotics task forces under the STING programme plus a separate district-level Anti-Narcotics Task Force within 100 days, launched a 'Drug-Free Tamil Nadu' app for anonymous reporting of drug activity in and around schools, and closed 717 liquor shops near schools, temples and bus stands — a decisive, enforcement-heavy early governing style, distinct from the still-unresolved CBI probe into his own conduct at the September 2025 Karur rally crush that killed at least 41 people, which the Supreme Court is separately monitoring through a committee headed by Justice Ajay Rastogi
The 717 liquor-shop closures near schools and temples are a targeted alcohol restriction rather than a prohibition programme or a position on marriage, live-in relationships or personal law — real but modest evidence on the traditional-norms side of a still largely unwritten culture record
Governs India's most economically significant Dravidian-tradition state from outside both national alliances, inheriting Tamil Nadu's structural federalism disputes — NEET, delimitation, Hindi imposition, GST shares — though no personal Centre-state clash has surfaced in his first 100 days
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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