Shops and business establishments owned and operated by Muslims in Aland town, Kalaburagi district, remained closed on Sunday for facilitating the procession organised by the Sri Ram Sene to celebrate Ram Navami.
Some of the traders said that they had closed their units voluntarily just to avoid any damage to them considering the recent communal disturbance in the town, when the same organisation attempted to storm the Ladle Mashak Dargah on the pretext of doing purification puja for the Raghava Chaitanya Shivalinga allegedly present.
But others said that they were asked by the police to close their establishments, especially those on the route through which the procession was planned.
