Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted everyone concerned for putting Bangladesh’s national anthem in the Guinness Book of World records.
PM’s Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil made the disclosure on Friday evening, reports BSS.
In her congratulatory message, Hasina said: “Through this record, the Bangalee nation has proved again that this country would be turned into Sonar Bangla one day as dreamt by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.”
She extended her heartiest congratulations to the organisers of the mega event including the ministry of cultural affairs, the armed forces, police, Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guard Bangladesh as well as the participants of the historic occasion.
She said: “Nothing is impossible for the nation which earned independence in exchange of blood through war.”
On Wednesday, Guinness authorities formally documented Bangladesh’s record in mobilising the highest number of people for singing simultaneously the national anthem coinciding with the Independence Day celebrations on March 26.
“The most people singing a national anthem simultaneously is 254,537 and was achieved by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh at the National Parade Ground in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 March 2014,” the Guinness authorities said.
Over 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis sang in chorus the national anthem to set a new world record coinciding with the 43rd Independence Day celebrations also joined by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with the 1971 Liberation War veterans and her cabinet colleagues.
According to machine counts at that time, 2,54,681 people sang the national anthem simultaneously at the main ground but organisers said the figure exceeded 3 lakh with inclusion of audience who joined the chorus on the sidelines.
India set the immediate past record in the category on May 6 last year when 121,653 people sang simultaneously their national anthem in an event staged by Sahara India Pariwar (India) in Lucknow.
Source: Dhaka Tribune