Guwahati: On the opening day of the Winter Session of the Assam Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, the state government distributed the full report of the Tewary Commission — the inquiry set up in 1983 to investigate the devastating massacre at Nellie massacre and related violence that claimed over 2,000 lives.
Printed editions of the document were placed on the desks of Assembly members as proceedings began.
The commission, officially known as the Commission of Enquiry on Assam Disturbances 1983 and headed by retired IAS officer T.P. Tewary, was constituted on July 14, 1983.
It submitted its final report in May 1984 to the then-Congress government, and the report was later tabled in the Assembly in 1987 under the first government led by Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the Assembly that prior to this distribution no copies of the report had been made available to the legislators — only one copy had been submitted to the Speaker in past.
A recent Cabinet decision of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, of which the AGP is a coalition partner, mandated that both print and digital versions of the document be circulated in the Assembly for the current session.
Despite the distribution, Sarma clarified that the House will not hold any discussion on the contents of the report during this session.
