Guwahati, Oct. 24 -- A day after the Assam cabinet approved tabling of the Tewary Commission Report, in the upcoming November session of the Assam Legislative Assembly, Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia termed the move as "politically motivated".
He said that while the victims and even those involved in the Nellie massacre have already buried their past, there is no reason to open an old wound.
"The people of Nellie have accepted what has happened in the past. It is said that time is the best healer, and most people have already forgotten about it. Post 1983, there had been no communal tension in Nellie. So I do not understand why the government plans to table the report after so many years," said Saikia while talking to this corr...