Overview
- The cabinet approved distributing the T P Tewari Commission report to all legislators and the Assembly library in hard and soft copy on the first day of the session.
- No debate on the report is planned in the House, with the move framed as fulfilling an old commitment to provide copies to members.
- Himanta Biswa Sarma says the commission describes the 1983 killings as a retaliatory attack by tribal communities on immigrant Muslims after earlier incidents.
- The chief minister highlights the report’s focus on demographic shifts since 1951, including declining farmland for locals and erosion of Assamese political, economic and cultural identity.
- The roughly 600-page report, submitted in May 1984 and placed in the Assembly in the mid-1980s without wider distribution, is being released as opposition leaders warn the timing could unsettle communal harmony.