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Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of expressing “fake outrage” over the NCERT issue, calling it a “damage control” exercise.
In an ‘X’ post, Ramesh further called the controversy not an accidental mistake but a part of “systematic indoctrination campaign.”
He further accused the Prime Minister of leading a false network consisting of academically false people, which have damage by “grave damage” to textbooks with his brand of “ideological virus.”
“After demonstrating real moral cowardice in Israel, the Prime Minister is expressing fake outrage on the NCERT books issue. In an obviously damage control exercise, he is letting it be known that he is extremely unhappy with the critical references to the judiciary in NCERT textbooks. Over the past decade, he has presided over a network of academic-quacks who have done grave damage by infecting textbooks with their brand of ideological virus. These are not accidental oversights but part of a systematic indoctrination campaign,” Ramesh wrote on ‘X’.
After demonstrating real moral cowardice in Israel, the Prime Minister is expressing fake outrage on the NCERT books issue. In an obviously damage control exercise, he is letting it be known that he is extremely unhappy with the critical references to the judiciary in NCERT…
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) February 27, 2026
Taking an indirect jibe at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Ramesh asserted that PM Modi has guided and shaped the “Nagpur Communal Ecosystem” for rewriting textbooks and called it sheer hypocrisy to distance himself from the textbooks that have “rightly agitated the Supreme Court.”
“Mr. Modi has himself guided and shaped the Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks–which is the real NCERT. It is sheer hypocrisy on his part to distance himself from the textbooks that have rightly agitated the Supreme Court. 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,” Jairam Ramesh added.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday supported the Supreme Court of India issuing show cause notices to senior officials of the Education Ministry and the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) over a sub-chapter titled “Corruption in the judiciary” in a Class 8 Social Science textbook.
Expressing “regret” on behalf of the government and the Education Ministry, Pradhan said that he directed the NCERT to withdraw and cancel all books.
