SC dismisses plea for national holiday on Guru Govind Singh's birthday

• The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking a national holiday on the birthday of Guru Govind Singh, the 10th guru of Sikhs.
• A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was not inclined to entertain the plea by All India Shiromani Singh Sabha.
• The petition also sought directions to issue specific guidelines for declaring public or gazetted holidays in the country.
• Senior advocate Vikas Singh argued there is no policy, and certainty is needed on how public holidays are decided.
• The plea contended that executives declare holidays at their whims, serving political appeasement in the absence of guiding principles.