Indrajit Gupta, the then Union home minister, stated in Parliament on 6 May 1997 that
there were 10 million illegal migrants in India.
Eventually still employed in Nigeria,
he wrote his landmark play Ebong Indrajit(And Indrajit)
in 1963, which was first published and performed in 1965 and catapulted him into instant fame, as it captured“the loneliness of post-Independence urban youth with dismaying accuracy”.