The Congress on Friday (February 27, 2026) took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the NCERT row, saying the PM has himself guided and shaped the "Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks", which is the real NCERT.
The Opposition party said the next logical step for the Supreme Court to take is to institute a full-fledged investigation into how textbooks have come to be rewritten and how they have become instruments of polarisation and political score-settling. Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, alleged that over the last decade, the Prime Minister has presided over a network of academic-quacks who have done grave damage by infecting textbooks with their brand of ideological virus.
NCERT textbook ‘rewrite’ was an ‘RSS-driven exercise’: Congress
The Congress' attack on the government came a day after the Supreme Court imposed a "complete blanket ban" on any further publication, reprinting or digital dissemination of the NCERT's Class 8 social science book, as it contains "offending" contents on corruption in the judiciary, saying a gunshot has been fired, and the institution is bleeding.
The government, on its part, expressed anguish over the inclusion of the controversial section in the book, with Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan promising to fix accountability and take action against those involved in drafting it.
