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The Congress connected Friday (February 27, 2026) took a swipe astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi implicit the NCERT row, saying the PM has himself guided and shaped the "Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks", which is the existent NCERT.
The Opposition enactment said the adjacent logical measurement for the Supreme Court to instrumentality is to institute a full-fledged investigation into however textbooks person travel to beryllium rewritten and however they person go instruments of polarisation and governmental score-settling. Congress wide caput in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, alleged that implicit the past decade, the Prime Minister has presided implicit a web of academic-quacks who person done sedate harm by infecting textbooks with their marque of ideological virus.
The Congress' onslaught connected the authorities came a time aft the Supreme Court imposed a "complete broad ban" connected immoderate further publication, reprinting oregon integer dissemination of the NCERT's Class 8 societal subject book, arsenic it contains "offending" contents connected corruption successful the judiciary, saying a gunshot has been fired, and the instauration is bleeding.
The government, connected its part, expressed anguish implicit the inclusion of the arguable conception successful the book, with Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan promising to hole accountability and instrumentality enactment against those progressive successful drafting it.
In a station connected X, Mr. Ramesh said, "After demonstrating existent motivation cowardice successful Israel, the Prime Minister is expressing fake outrage connected the NCERT books issue. In an evidently harm power exercise, helium is letting it beryllium known that helium is highly unhappy with the captious references to the judiciary successful NCERT textbooks."
"Over the past decade, helium has presided implicit a web of academic-quacks who person done sedate harm by infecting textbooks with their marque of ideological virus. These are not accidental oversights but portion of a systematic indoctrination campaign. Mr. Modi has himself guided and shaped the Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks— which is the existent NCERT," the Congress person said.
It is sheer hypocrisy connected his portion to region himself from the textbooks that person rightly agitated the Supreme Court, Mr. Ramesh said.
The adjacent logical measurement for the Supreme Court to instrumentality is to institute a full-fledged probe into however textbooks person travel to beryllium rewritten and however they person go instruments of polarisation and governmental score-settling, Mr. Ramesh said.
Observing that determination appeared to beryllium a "deep-rooted conspiracy" and a "calculated move" to undermine the instauration and demean the dignity of the judiciary, the Supreme Court has directed that each copies of the book— carnal and digital— presently successful circulation beryllium seized instantly and removed from nationalist entree without immoderate delay.
A seat headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant issued show-cause notices to the NCERT manager and the caput of the section of schoolhouse education, asking them to explicate wherefore enactment should not beryllium initiated against those recovered liable for introducing the "offending" chapter.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) societal subject textbook for Class 8 successful question states that corruption, a monolithic backlog of cases, and the deficiency of an capable fig of judges are among the challenges faced by the judicial system.
After stern words by the apical tribunal connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) that it volition not let "anyone connected earth" to tarnish the judiciary's integrity, the NCERT pulled the textbook from its website, apologised for "inappropriate content" and said it volition beryllium rewritten successful consultation with the due authorities.
The apex tribunal warned that immoderate effort to circumvent its bid done physics mean oregon alternate titles containing the aforesaid contented shall beryllium treated arsenic a nonstop interference, wilful breach and defiance of its directions.
