Patna, July 28: The opposition BJP-Samata combine in Bihar today gave a 24-hour ultimatum to secure safe release of five kidnapped persons, including the nephew of state sugarcane minister Raghwendra Pratap Singh, failing which it would stage a dharna in the well of the assembly tomorrow and demand the resignation of the Rabri Devi government. "No one is safe in the state and parents are not sending their children to school... Kidnappers are ruling the roost in the state," leader of the opposition Sushil Kumar Modi said in the assembly, raising the issue during zero hour. The opposition members would sit on a dharna in the assembly to demand resignation of the government for failing to track down the kidnappers, he said.

The government was only making tall claims that several measures had been initiated to smash the gangs, he said and alleged that it lacked the will power to do so.
He alleged that anti-social elements had got emboldened, which was evident from yesterday's incidents in which the Vaishali district president of Bihar Policemen's Association a K Singh was shot dead and a woman kidnapped from Nawada district.
Siddhanta Parmar, nephew of the minister, was kidnapped in the state capital, while a bank manager R D Sharma, a coal merchant and two others were abducted from Rohtas district on July 24.