Guwahati: Upamanyu Hazarika, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court and convener of the Prabajan Virodhi Mancha, a forum against infiltration, has written to the registrar-general of India (RGI), Sailesh and is even and consequently.is is likely to reduce

The names of over 40 lakh applicants did not figure in the draft NRC, which contained 2.89 crore names of 3.29 crore applicants.

The then Union minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal had made a statement in Parliament on July 14, 2004, that there were 50 lakh infiltrators in Assam as on December 31, 2001. Again, Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju, on November 16, 2016, gave a figure of 80 lakh infiltrators in Parliament.

"The 40 lakh figure has drastically fallen short of these estimated number," Hazarika said.