Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on November 13 criticised former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta for failing to distribute printed copies of the Tiwari Commission report, despite having tabled it in the Assembly in 1987 with a promise to supply copies “in days to come”.

Sarma said that although Mahanta placed the report before the House, “printed copies were never provided to the MPs, MLAs”, and even the Assembly library does not have a copy. He called the omission a long-standing gap that kept crucial findings out of public reach for nearly four decades.

The Chief Minister announced that the current government will circulate the report to all MLAs and place copies in the Assam Legislative Assembly library on November 25.

Recalling the circumstances that led to the commis

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