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Bharatiya Janata Party

Furthest from the middle on Nation, toward Majoritarian.

Where they stand

Bharatiya Janata Party on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.

  • Welfare

    −1.0
    Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision
  • State-led developmentMarket-led development
  • Formal equalityGroup remedies
  • Nation

    +8.0
    PluralistMajoritarian
  • Civil libertiesStrong state
  • Personal autonomyTraditional norms
  • 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

    −1.0
    Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provision

    Placement confidencemedium

    Sankalp Patra 2024 extends free ration five years and Ayushman Bharat to all over-70s, and promises 3 crore more PM Awas houses — inside a fiscal-consolidation and anti-'revdi' frame

  2. State-led developmentMarket-led development

    Placement confidencemedium

    The 2021 disinvestment policy, corporate tax cut and labour codes pull one way; PLI subsidies, rising tariffs, the farm-law repeal and an unprivatised banking sector pull the other

  3. Formal equalityGroup remedies

    Placement confidencelow

    Maintains every caste quota and restored the SC/ST Act, but added income-based EWS, refuses a national caste census, holds the 50% cap, and legislated on Waqf

  4. Nation

    +8.0
    PluralistMajoritarian

    Placement confidencehigh

    Article 370, CAA, the Ram Mandir, UCC as a standing manifesto commitment, and the 2025 Waqf Amendment

  5. Civil libertiesStrong state

    Placement confidencehigh

    UAPA and PMLA amendments, IT Rules 2021, sedition carried into BNS Section 152, and bulldozer governance across BJP states

  6. Personal autonomyTraditional norms

    Placement confidencehigh

    Opposed same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court, OTT certification, love-jihad and live-in-registration laws in BJP states — against triple talaq criminalisation and the women's reservation Act

  7. CentreStates

    Placement confidencehigh

    GST centralisation, cesses outside the divisible pool, the ONOE bill, Governor confrontations and 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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