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The Congress connected Thursday (February 26, 2026) claimed the Supreme Court of India is “rightly agitated” implicit the NCERT textbook for people 8 and accused the Centre of orchestrating an “RSS-driven workout afloat of mischief and malice” successful the rewriting of schoolhouse textbooks.
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Congress connection main Jairam Ramesh made these remarks aft the Supreme Court of India imposed a ban connected a Class 8 NCERT societal subject textbook that contained references to corruption successful the judiciary.
“The Supreme Court is rightly agitated implicit captious references to the judiciary successful NCERT textbooks. Actually, the mode NCERT textbooks person been rewritten implicit the past decennary is disgraceful, isolated from being dangerous,” Mr. Ramesh said successful an X post.
“It has been an RSS-driven workout afloat of mischief and malice. It is this racket that needs to beryllium investigated,”he added.
Seizure of copies
A three-judge Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi ordered the seizure of each carnal and integer copies of the publication and issued show-cause notices to the NCERT Director and the Secretary, Department of School Education, asking wherefore contempt proceedings should not beryllium initiated.
The tribunal took suo motu cognisance of the substance aft elder advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Singhvi mentioned it for urgent hearing. Observing that it would not let “anyone connected earth” to tarnish the judiciary’s integrity, the Bench expressed beardown disapproval of the contents.
Following the court’s remarks, NCERT withdrew the textbook from its website and apologised for “inappropriate content”, stating that the section would beryllium rewritten successful consultation with due authorities.
