Overview
- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the Cabinet’s decision to present the Tiwari Commission report in the next Assembly session, ending four decades without a public tabling.
- Officials say the report’s copies lacked the commission chair’s signature, and they authenticated the document through interviews with former staff and forensic checks.
- The Nellie massacre on February 18, 1983, killed predominantly Bengali-origin Muslim civilians, with an official toll near 1,800 and unofficial estimates up to 3,000.
- Records cited in coverage note that 668 FIRs were filed in the weeks after the violence, yet no arrests were made.
- Alongside the tabling plan, the Cabinet moved to exempt select indigenous and tea-garden communities from the two-child rule and proposed land allotments for tea-tribe families, as opposition voices question the timing and potential community impact.