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New Delhi, April 25
A central authorities programme held in Bhojpur district of Bihar on Saturday has been accepted by the Guinness Book of Records as one which noticed largest variety of individuals until date anyplace on this planet waving the nationwide flag.
“In the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, India has created a record in waving the National Flag. On April 23, 2022, India entered the Guinness Book of World Records by waving 78,220 tricolours simultaneously at the Veer Kunwar Singh Vijayotsav programme at Duler Ground in Jagdishpur, Bhojpur, Bihar,” a press launch issued by the Ministry of Culture stated right now.
The earlier world document was set by 56,000 Pakistanis who waved their nationwide flag at a operate in Lahore in 2004.
The image of a certificates purportedly from the Guinness Book of Records, which was connected by the Ministry of Culture with the press launch, acknowledged, “The most people waving flags was achieved by Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India (India) to celebrate ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, at Jagdishpur, Bhojpur, Bihar, India”.
The programme was witnessed by representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records and contributors had been requested to put on bands for bodily identification. The full occasion is documented in video type, the press launch added.
The operate was organized to pay tribute to Veer Kunwar Singh, who is taken into account one of many ‘heroes’ of the primary warfare of independence of 1857.
Union Ministers RK Singh, Ashwini Choubey and Nityanand Rai had been additionally current on the occasion.
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