PDIT Joined hands with Sahara for Guinness Record

PDIT Joined hands with Sahara in singing national anthem for Guinness Record

PDIT Staff and students singing national anthem on 6th May 2013 Bharat Bhawna Diwas

Posted by News Desk on May 6, 2013 in National, News

Lucknow, May 6 (ANI): A private business house in Lucknow had attempted to create a new world record with over 100,000 of its employees singing the country’s national anthem together at one point in one uniform on Monday.

Chairman of the Sahara Group, Subrata Roy, while addressing the gathering at a stadium in Lucknow, expressed his delight as his company’s attempt to create a new world record.

Roy says he espouses a philosophy of “collective materialism” and according to Sahara’s website, the group shares its profits between staff, its internal fund and social development activities and has never declared a dividend.

The current world record is held by Pakistan where 42,813 people sang the national anthem at one place in a group.

Apart from over 101,000 Sahara employees singing the national anthem at one place Lucknow, the Sahara Group also attempted the record of over one million of its employees singing in one uniform at the same time at 4,512 of their offices spread across India.

Sahara has gained a global profile in recent years through its acquisition of London’s Grosvenor House hotel and the Plaza Hotel in New York.

Guinness World Records representatives were present in the stadium to monitor the record attempt but they are yet to make any official confirmation on whether the current record has been bettered.

Roy is currently locked in a legal battle with the stock market watchdog SEBI over a bond scheme that the Supreme Court deemed illegal.

SEBI accuses Sahara, best known as the main sponsor of the Indian cricket team, of raising billions of dollars from small investors through an outlawed financial scheme and failing to comply with a court order to refund the money.

Sahara has said it repaid most of the investors.

The male workers of Sahara were wearing a uniform of white shirt, black pants and black ties, while the women sported red saris (traditional wear).