If this is not done, the Hindu community would boycott the February 18 parliamentary polls, Mukhia Manak Chand told a Hindu panchayat meeting in Dera Murad Jamali town.
Hours after the meeting, four armed men kidnapped Ravi Kumar, the son of rice mill owner Seth Haripal Das, in Jaffarabad on Wednesday night. Police said the armed men broke into the Baloch Rice Mill and abducted Kumar.
Police cordoned off the area and launched efforts to trace the kidnapped youth.
Manak Chand said the kidnapping of the men had created restlessness and panic among Hindus and this could be resolved only through the early release of the traders.
He also emphasised the need for measures for the security of the Hindu community.
The three traders were kidnapped from a Jacobabad-bound van in Jaffarabad district. They had come to Dera Murad Jamali on a business trip from Jacobabad.
The kidnappers, who were travelling in the same van, stopped the vehicle and abducted the traders at gun point.