Assam government has decided to table the T.D. Tiwari Commission report on Nellie Massacre of 1983 in state assembly in the assembly session next month.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday, “The Tiwari commission report was never laid in assembly. The cabinet meeting has decided that the report of the massacre of 1983 will be tabled in the state assembly on November 25.”
Sarma said, “The copies of the report available with the government did not have the signature of Tiwari. We sent officers to the clerks and others who wrote the report, and we did a forensic test of the same and found that it was genuine. Successive governments refrained from making the same public.”
Sarma said, “We decided that one must take a bold step and this a part of Assam’s history. Historians and social scientists have interpreted and presented in different ways. However, once the report is there in public people can see for themselves what it meant.”
The chief minister said that this report of 1985 was given to the government in 1985, new generations will come to know about the prevailing situation of then.
The incident took place when Assam Agitation was underway. The Tiwari commission handed a 600-page report to the erstwhile Hiteswar Saikia government in May 1984. The report has never been made public.
Around 1,800 people died in the span of six hours when mobs attacked villages in and around Nellie on February 18, 1983.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday, “The Tiwari commission report was never laid in assembly. The cabinet meeting has decided that the report of the massacre of 1983 will be tabled in the state assembly on November 25.”
Sarma said, “The copies of the report available with the government did not have the signature of Tiwari. We sent officers to the clerks and others who wrote the report, and we did a forensic test of the same and found that it was genuine. Successive governments refrained from making the same public.”
Sarma said, “We decided that one must take a bold step and this a part of Assam’s history. Historians and social scientists have interpreted and presented in different ways. However, once the report is there in public people can see for themselves what it meant.”
The chief minister said that this report of 1985 was given to the government in 1985, new generations will come to know about the prevailing situation of then.
The incident took place when Assam Agitation was underway. The Tiwari commission handed a 600-page report to the erstwhile Hiteswar Saikia government in May 1984. The report has never been made public.
Around 1,800 people died in the span of six hours when mobs attacked villages in and around Nellie on February 18, 1983.
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