Ruto to decide on making Diwali a public holiday by next year
President William Ruto on Wednesday said his
government will determine whether to make Diwali a public holiday by next year.
Ruto announced this at State House, Nairobi when
he hosted Hindus to mark the “Festival of Lights,” as the holiday is also
called.
“I will undertake to subject it to the process
of government,” the President said in response to a request from Hindu leaders.
“The Speaker is here, if it has to happen,
it has to go all the way to Parliament but I assure you we will have made a decision
by the next Diwali.”
Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is India’s
most important holiday of the year.
It symbolises the spiritual "victory
of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance".
While the dates for the holiday vary each
year as they follow the lunar calendar, it is celebrated between mid-September and mid-November.
The celebrations generally last five or six
days, or even as short as one day, depending on where a person lives or how the
person celebrates.
However, unlike other religious celebrations
like Christmas for Christians or Eid al-Fitr for Muslims, it is not observed as
a public holiday in Kenya.
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