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Bill to recognize new state holiday heads to Gov. Newsom
KTLA ^ | September 15, 2025 | by: Iman Palm

Posted on 09/15/2025 3:49:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

California is one step closer to adding another official holiday to its calendar.

The California Legislature has passed AB 268, introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José), which would designate Diwali as an official state holiday.

Diwali, also known as the “Festival of Lights,” is celebrated annually by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains worldwide. Celebrants light small oil lamps, place them around the home, and pray for health, knowledge, and peace.

The word “Diwali” is a shortened version of the Sanskrit term “Deepavali,” which means “a row of lamps.”

“Designating Diwali as an official state holiday not only recognizes the festival’s religious and historical importance but will better enable those throughout the Indian diaspora and beyond to take part in one of the world’s oldest religious holidays,” Assemblymember Kalra said in a statement. “With AB 268, California also cultivates a greater understanding and appreciation for the diverse cultures and faith traditions that enrich our state.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: assimilationfail; diwali; fail2assimilate
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1 posted on 09/15/2025 3:49:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

State holiday? NO

Hindus can go to any temple and celebrate there. Don’t hate them at all, in facet a long time aho, when I lived in LA, I liked the Hindu couple that lived in my neighborhood.


2 posted on 09/15/2025 3:56:09 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AND ALL EMPLOYERS ARE SUPPOSED TO PAY THEIR WORKERS FOR THIS “NEW HOLIDAY OFF”?????

NEWSOM NEEDS A LOBOTOMY


3 posted on 09/15/2025 3:56:34 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Idiot media wont even tell us a date


4 posted on 09/15/2025 3:59:42 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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AB 268 introduced by Democrat Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San
José) would designate Diwali as an “official state holiday.”

Diwali, AKA the “Festival of Lights,” is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains.
The word “Diwali” is a version of the Sanskrit term “Deepavali,” which means “a row of lamps.”


I though it meant “Indians taking more jobs from Americans.”


5 posted on 09/15/2025 4:01:13 PM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Da Wally


6 posted on 09/15/2025 4:17:37 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: George from New England

The date probably moves around. A lot of those old Indian-based holidays are based on the phases of the moon. Thailand has Loi Kratong, which is in November, but a couple of years ago it was on Halloween.


7 posted on 09/15/2025 4:21:21 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What happened to “separation of church and state?”

No offense to Hi du tradition. But if any state adopts Hindu holy days there would never be another day of work. (Of course that’s what socialists want.)


8 posted on 09/15/2025 4:26:10 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. D)
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The timing of Diwali is based on a lunar calendar which is like the Hebrew calendar in that it adjusts to the solar year (the Muslim lunar calendar does not which means Muslim days of observance drift forward during successive years).

So your California Diwali time off work comes in late October on average. It’s like making Hallowe’en a statutory holiday except gaining Hindu votes rather than the witch and perpetual child vote which the Democrats already had in the bag.


9 posted on 09/15/2025 4:27:42 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The scoffers will say where is the promise of His coming? Turn on your damn TV)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, the cost of our move out of CA continues to diminish!


10 posted on 09/15/2025 4:30:57 PM PDT by PsyCon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well if that’s the case one could make so many days an official state holiday the entire calendar could be blocked off. None of them Christian of course.


11 posted on 09/15/2025 4:33:28 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He's selling out the US to buy votes for himself and his party.

In the long run, this country is doomed.

12 posted on 09/15/2025 4:41:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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I’m in California, and hearing about this planned holiday does not upset me at all. I know several pleasant, hardworking Indians or people from that part of the world.
Most of them do make attempts to assimilate. My Indian neighbors are quiet at night, unlike some of my other neighbors from other parts of the world. That’s all I need from them.

As with most people from different backgrounds, I tend to leave certain topics undiscussed unless that person should bring it up. IOW, I don’t walk up to my Sari wearing neighbor and ask her “Hi, are you here legally? I was just curious”


13 posted on 09/15/2025 5:00:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Veto!

Will have to ponder this with the “warming tree” at the walmart break room.

Always wondered how a Christmas tree with leds warmed anything.


14 posted on 09/15/2025 5:05:39 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what’ll the theme song for the holiday be? “The House is burning”?


15 posted on 09/15/2025 5:10:07 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Newsom: What is this thing? I thought the new day was to honor hair gel day. 📑🖋️
Get it off my desk.


16 posted on 09/15/2025 5:21:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: George from New England

It may be a holiday the floats in the Gregorian calendar. Like Easter it may be celebrated according to the phase of the moon.


17 posted on 09/15/2025 5:27:41 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why do we need a “holiday” for screwball non-Americans who ran like yellow dogs from their own country. That want to celebrate this crap they can go home and do it. We don’t need all those maggots here driving semis and killing Haitians.


18 posted on 09/15/2025 5:30:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Tranny "Furries" with sniper rifles. What has this country come to?)
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To: George from New England

Lunar calendar with an extra month every 3 years to sync it with seasons. A little like Jewish calendar.


19 posted on 09/15/2025 5:33:37 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: lee martell

“My Indian neighbors are quiet at night, unlike some of my other neighbors from other parts of the world.”
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I must have the rest of them in central Florida.

:-/


20 posted on 09/15/2025 5:33:40 PM PDT by Does so ("Things will now change in Minneapolis AND AT HOME"....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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