Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday evening received the certificate of Guinness World Record for successfully holding of the Lakho Kanthe Sonar Bangla Programme in the capital on March 26 where over 2.50 lakh people sang the national anthem at the national parade ground creating a new Guinness World Record.
Hasina also received another certificate for her participation in the programme.
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor handed over the certificates of the Guinness World Record and her participation in the programme to Hasina at her parliament office in the evening.
Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division Let Gen Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq was present. The certificates of Guinness World Record will be preserved at the Prime Minister’s Office.
Bangladesh was listed in the Guinness World Record for singing the national anthem by the largest number of people together in Dhaka on March 26.
The Guinness World Record made the announcement on its official website.
“The most people singing a national anthem simultaneously is 254,537 and was achieved by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh at the National Parade Ground in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 March 2014,” said the website.
Earlier, the world record of the largest number of people singing the national or regional anthem together belonged to Sahara India Pariwar (India). Some 1.21 lakh people sang the India’s national anthem at that event on May 6, last year in Lucknow.
Source: UNBConnect