♦ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma introduced the Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025 in the state Assembly on 25 November 2025. This marking a major step toward outlawing polygamy and advancing social reform in the state. 

♦ In a related development, Sarma also tabled the report of the Justice (retd) T.U. Mehta Commission, which examined the widespread violence during the 1983 Assembly elections—a period marked by the peak of the anti-influx agitation from 1979 to 1985. Among the darkest chapters of this period was the Nellie massacre of February 1983, in which over 2,100 people were killed in a single night.

♦ The Commission, headed by retired IAS officer T.P. Tewary, was set up on July 14, 1983, and submitted its final report in May 1984 to the then Congress government. Though the report was formally tabled by the AGP government in 1987, access had remained limited, with only one copy available in the Speaker’s office.