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Indian creates record by standing still for 25 hours

Armed with immense determination, a 30-year-old man on Sunday created a record of sorts by standing still in the pose of Mahatma Gandhi for 25 hours in Delhi.

Seshu Babu, an admirer of the Father of the Nation, set out to meet the self-posed challenge at 1200 hours on Saturday and accomplished the feat at 1300 hours on Sunday, surpassing the 18 hours record of a Bhopal-based man in the Limca Book of Records.

With his head shaven and the entire body painted in silver, the Vijayawada-based bespectacled employee of a private company stood still holding a stick, replicating the statue of the Bapu.

When he finally moved after standing for 25 hours, his legs refused to take the burden of his body. He was made to sit as a number of visitors eagerly jostled with each other to get a glance of him.

"My dream is to create a world record by the end of this year and earn a good name for my country," said Babu, for whom such feats are nothing new.

"Delhi Lt Governer Vijai Kapoor once mistook him for a statue in one of our functions," said B Nagaraju, General Secretary of the Delhi Telugu Academy, who organised the show.

PTI

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