Budget on July 23, which finance minister gave the longest speech?

The budget session of Parliament is starting from July 22. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha on July 23. This time Nirmala Sitharaman will create a unique record by presenting the budget. She is the first Finance Minister of the country to present the budget for the 7th consecutive time. Apart from Sitharaman, the record of presenting the budget six times so far is in the name of former Prime Minister Marorji Desai. However, this time Sitharaman will also break the record of former PM Desai. So let us know which Finance Minister has given the longest speech in the budget so far.

When and how many minutes' speech did Nirmala Sitharaman give?

Which Finance Minister gave the longest speech?

Nirmala Sitharaman also holds the record for reading the longest budget speech in Indian history. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget 2020 speech is the longest budget speech in Indian history lasting 2 hours 40 minutes. Meanwhile, she broke her own record of 2 hours 17 minutes to present Union Budget 2019. Before her, the record for the longest budget speech was held by the late Arun Jaitley. Jaitley's 2014 budget speech was 2 hours 10 minutes long.

Who has the shortest speech?

Before Nirmala Sitharaman, the record of giving the longest budget speech was in the name of BJP leader Jaswant Singh. In 2003, he presented a budget of 2 hours and 15 minutes. While the shortest budget speech in the history of independent India was given by Hirubhai M Patel in 1977. He gave an interim budget speech of just 800 words. The shortest full budget speech was by Y. B Chauhan. Which was only 9300 words. Morarji Desai gave the second shortest speech of 10 thousand words.