The Uttar Pradesh government under Yogi the CM has broken the world record by lighting nearly two lakh diyas atSarayu river bank in Ayodhya. Around 2 lakh diyas were lighted at a time to enter the record books.
Interestingly, the current Guinness World Record for the largest display of oil lamp is in the name of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is currently serving 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples inside the sprawling Dera headquarters in Sirsa in 2002.
“The largest display of oil lamps consists of 150,009 lamps achieved at an event organised by Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan (India) in Haryana, India, on 23 September 2016.
1531 participants took part in assembling and lighting the lamps for this display,” an entry on the official website of Guinness World Records says.
