Apart from the fact that trading will be shut today on account of Eid, on April 17 because of Ram Navami, and on May 1 for Maharashtra Day, having a shut shop because of elections makes for confusing optics. Pitched as a 'festival of democracy', turning one knob off in the citizenry's many functions — that of doing business — is rather, well, unhelpful to portray 'business as usual'.
Traders and business folks in other markets don't hang the 'closed' sign to vote. They simply step out to do the needful.
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