Pothula Srinivasa Brahmananda, the Guinness World record holder of the longest 33.46-hour speech, is now attempting to increase the speech time to 42 hours.
On Tuesday, he started delivering speech from 7 am on ‘Ideology and spiritual concept of Swami Vivekananda and its relevance to present day society’ at the Kosi Bhawan of the KIIT University here to break his earlier record.
Tourism and Culture Secretary Dr Arabinda Padhee inaugurated the programme in the presence of MlA Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Cuttack Deputy Commissioner of Police Praveen Kumar.
The speech is scheduled to last till 1 in night on Thursday. Anyone can attend the programme.Brahmananda is working as a senior scientist with the Indian Council of Agriculture Research in Bhubaneswar.