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BJP leader’s son kidnapped, ULFA releases ISIS-style video Guwahati, Aug 22 (PTI) A BJP leader’s son has beenkidnapped from Assam’s Tinsukia district with the PareshBarua-led ULFA-Independent releasing an ISIS-style video thatpurportedly shows him surrounded by armed and masked militantsand appealing to Chief Minister Sarbanda Sonowal to secure hisearly release. The ULFA has demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore. The video, aired by local TV channels today, shows BJPleader and Tinsukia Zilla Parishad vice-president LakheswarMoran’s son Kuldeep, who was allegedly abducted by the groupon August 1, pleading to Sonowal, his uncle and Sadiya BJP MLABolin Chetia and his parents to secure his release. Surrounded by five masked men pointing their riflestowards the kneeling young man in a jungle area, Kuldeep isseen looking at a video camera and narrating his plight –about his deteriorating health, about the danger to his lifeas he could be caught in a crossfire between his kidnappersand security forces and about being moved from place to place. Meanwhile, Sonowal tonight appealed to the abductors torelease him on humanitarian ground. "I appeal to the abductors to release the boy as ahumanitarian gesture. Our government believes that violencewill achieve nothing and we are committed to the peaceprocess," he told PTI. MLA Chetia said he had received a phone call from theanti-talk ULFA-I faction demanding Rs one crore ransom for hisnephew’s release, adding paying that amount was not possiblefor him and he also did not endorse the idea of paying ransom. Kuldeep’s mother and wife had earlier appealed to theULFA-I to release him saying they do not have the finances topay the ransom. Assam and Arunachal Pradesh police are carrying out searchoperations to rescue Kuldeep from his abductors. PTI ESB ACBNNZMN