In politics today
Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
YSRCP
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister 2019–2024. Navaratnalu pushed about ₹2.7 lakh crore of direct transfers into households while state debt more than doubled — and the same term abandoned Amaravati, reopened signed power contracts and charged opposition news channels with sedition.
Furthest from the middle on Welfare, toward Expansive state provision.
Where they stand
Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−9.0Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
−5.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+7.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
−1.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+6.0Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+1.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+1.0CentreStates
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.
Navaratnalu — Amma Vodi, Rythu Bharosa, Cheyutha, expanded Aarogyasri — moved about ₹2.7 lakh crore in direct transfers by his own count, through new village and ward secretariats, on debt rising from ₹3.75 lakh crore in 2019 to ₹9.74 lakh crore
Reopened solar and wind power purchase agreements in July 2019, which IEEFA said put US$40 billion of renewable investment at risk; reverse-tendered Polavaram against the Centre's advice; scrapped Amaravati after 33,000 acres were pooled; took liquor retail into state hands
Legislated 50% of nominated posts and works for SC, ST, BC and minorities and 50% for women; four of his five Deputy Chief Ministers were SC, ST, BC and minority appointees; built dozens of BC sub-caste corporations; kept AP's 4% Muslim reservation
YSRCP votes carried the Citizenship Amendment Act and its MP called the Article 370 abrogation a step toward 'national integration' — yet the party voted against criminalising triple talaq and whipped against the 2025 Waqf Amendment, under a Christian chief minister who kept AP's minority schemes
Sedition FIRs against TV5 and ABN Andhra Jyothi, on which the Supreme Court stayed coercive action in May 2021; an October 2019 order letting every department head file cases against media; Chandrababu Naidu's September 2023 arrest in the ₹371 crore skill-development case
Ran on phased total prohibition, cut bars from 840 to 530, capped possession at three bottles and required import permits — then switched from prohibition to restriction in 2021 and cut prices for revenue; his English-medium order was struck down by the High Court
Pressed Special Category Status and the Reorganisation Act's unpaid bifurcation dues throughout, while being the Centre's most reliable non-NDA vote for five years — no NITI Aayog boycott, no Governor fight, no opposition federalism front
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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