NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for including critical references to the judiciary in its textbooks.
Reacting to the Supreme Court’s observations on the matter, Ramesh described the decade-long rewriting of textbooks as "disgraceful" and "dangerous."
In a post on X, the Rajya Sabha MP alleged the revisions were an "RSS-driven exercise full of mischief and malice".
“The Supreme Court is rightly agitated over critical references to the judiciary in NCERT textbooks. Actually, the way NCERT textbooks have been rewritten over the past decade is disgraceful, apart from being dangerous as well. It has been an RSS-driven exercise full of mischief and malice. It is this racket that needs to be investigated, ” he said in the X post.