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Yogi Adityanath

BJP

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister since 2017 and head of the Gorakhnath math. 'Bulldozer' enforcement, the anti-conversion law and open majoritarian rhetoric, alongside free-grain welfare and investor summits.

Furthest from the middle on Nation, toward Majoritarian.

Where they stand

Yogi Adityanath on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.

  • Welfare

    −2.0
    Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision

  • Markets

    +2.5
    State-led developmentMarket-led development

  • Recognition

    −2.5
    Formal equalityGroup remedies

  • Nation

    +9.5
    PluralistMajoritarian

  • Authority

    +9.0
    Civil libertiesStrong state

  • Culture

    +8.0
    Personal autonomyTraditional norms

  • Federalism

    −6.0
    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

    −2.0
    Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision

    Placement confidencemedium

    Runs India's largest free-ration operation plus Kanya Sumangala, but frames it as targeted 'labharthi' delivery and echoes the anti-freebie line

  2. Markets

    +2.5
    State-led developmentMarket-led development

    Placement confidencemedium

    UP Global Investors Summit, defence corridor and expressway build-out with private capital — alongside heavy state spending on cow shelters and sugarcane arrears

  3. Recognition

    −2.5
    Formal equalityGroup remedies

    Placement confidencelow

    Kept OBC and SC/ST quotas and fought to restore the OBC local-body quota after the High Court struck it down, but opposes a caste census and backed the Waqf Amendment

  4. Nation

    +9.5
    PluralistMajoritarian

    Placement confidencehigh

    Founded Hindu Yuva Vahini, Ayodhya and Kashi Vishwanath corridor, the 2020 anti-conversion law strengthened to life imprisonment in 2024, renamed Allahabad and Faizabad, 'batenge to katenge'

  5. Authority

    +9.0
    Civil libertiesStrong state

    Placement confidencehigh

    Publicly counts thousands of police encounters, made bulldozer demolition a signature (censured by the Supreme Court in November 2024), NSA and Gangsters Act use, jailed Siddique Kappan

  6. Culture

    +8.0
    Personal autonomyTraditional norms

    Placement confidencehigh

    Anti-Romeo squads, the love-jihad law, meat-shop closures near temples, the 2024 Kanwar-route name-display order

  7. Federalism

    −6.0
    CentreStates

    Placement confidencemedium

    Centre-aligned throughout; UP is the chief beneficiary of central-scheme delivery and of population-based delimitation

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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