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The final draft of NRC is slated to be released on June 30. Terming the ensuing final NRC draft a 'death warrant' for the people of the state, the Mahasangha alleged that the NRC can turn the indigenous people of the state into a minority.The first draft of NRC was released on December 31 last year with names of at least 1.9 crore people out of 3.29 crore applicants. He said the ASM expects that a constitutional bench will take up the matter from July 15. "If the NRC is updated on the basis of the cutoff date of 1971, we fear that around 70 lakh outsiders living in Assam may become citizens of the country. GUWAHATI: The Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha ( ASM ), an umbrella organization of the state's various indigenous and tribal communities, reiterated its demand on Tuesday that the final draft of National Register of Citizen NRC ) should contain only the names of indigenous people of the state.The ASM said it feared that if the final draft includes names of those who had come to the state for work and other purposes after 1951, it would not serve the 'real purpose of identifying outsiders'..