Guinness record for waving most flags simultaneously on Veer Kunwar Singh Vijayotsav.

Why in news?

• On April 23, at the “Veer Kunwar Singh Vijayotsav” programme in Bihar’s Bhojpur district, 78,220 Indians waved the tricolour. With this, the country has marked its name in the Guinness Book of World records.
• Popularly known as Veer Kunwar Singh, he was born in the Ujjainiya clan of the Parmar Rajputs of Jagdishpur, part of present-day Bhojpur district, Bihar.
• He was a freedom fighter and at the age of 80 he led the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British East India Company in Bihar.
• An expert of guerilla warfare, he fought various battles against the British at Arrah, Azamgarh, Kanpur, Baliya etc.