Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister, presented her fourth budget today. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took the podium for her budget speech at 11:31 a.m. and finished at 12:31 a.m. This time, she managed to keep track of every budget discussion on her tablet in 91 minutes.
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In the 74 years after independence, 93 budgets have been submitted. This is because, in many election years, an interim budget is presented before the election and the full budget is presented thereafter. A minister set the record for the longest budget speech in these 74 years, while someone concluded it in minutes. The current Finance Minister also holds the record for the longest budget speech. HM Patel delivered the shortest speech in 1977.
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By reading, the discourse lasted 2 hours and 42 minutes. Nirmala Sitharaman gave the longest budget speech two years ago. On February 1, 2020, the Finance Minister read the budget speech for 2 hours and 42 minutes. This speech included 18 thousand 926 words, but she couldn't read the last two pages owing to her declining condition. Otherwise, that speech could have gone on for a little longer.
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Her name was also recorded in the year 2019. Nirmala Sitharaman gave a 2 hour 15 minute speech in 2019. She already held the record for the longest budget speech at the time. Previously, this record was held by Jaswant Singh. In 2003, he read a budget speech that lasted 2 hours and 13 minutes. Arun Jaitley is the third name on this list, having delivered a speech that lasted 2 hours and 10 minutes in 2014.
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