The reservations were expressed following the second continuous day that the State Council witnessed filibustering and pandemonium over the government's failure to table the report with the presiding officer in the chair abruptly adjourning the House after racing through the agenda.

In the Assembly the Opposition members walked out in protest. Soon after the question hour in Council, members from both sides of the House brought their vocal chords into action raising a major din in an attempt to drown out the voices of the rival sides.

The proceedings had to be adjourned thrice without much calm being restored. Tempers were frayed even as Chief Minister Manohar Joshi expressed the view that the Sena had no regrets at all about its role in the 1992-93 riots andthat he had never made a categorical assurance that he would table the report during the current session of the legislature.

This was disputed by Samajwadi Party member Hussain Dalwai who reminded Joshi of his promise in the direction during his customary Session-eve tea party last month. Finally after a third adjournment failed to cool tempers or restore order, Deputy Chairperson N S Pharande raced through the business on the agenda and abruptly adjourned for the day.

Later speaking to reporters in the Council lobby, Bhujbal said that Joshi's statement on the lack of regrets in the Sena was immensely disturbing and pointed to the intentions of the government to give the report a burial rather than risk taking action against its own remote control Bal Thackeray.

Bhujbal said the government had already tampered more than once with the Commission. First they folded it up. The Commission was revived only by the 13-day Atal Behari Vajpayee government at the Centre. ``Not out of any concern for the riotvictims but because the Sena-BJP alliance itself was apprehensive about the possible use of Article 356 by the incoming United Front government on the grounds of the Maharashtra government's failure to commit to democratic values,'' Bhujbal said.

Secondly, the government had also sought to extend the brief of the Commission to take into account the March 1993 bomb blasts in the city when there was already a competent TADA court dealing with the cases, he added.