Budget 2025: The country’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the budget for the eighth consecutive time today. In such a situation, the country is speculating on what Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to bring for more than one billion citizens of the country this year. The Finance Minister gives budget speeches in Parliament, which outlines the government’s plans for the economy for the financial year and the government for the people. This is why every budget speech is considered very important. So let’s take a look at the longest and shortest budget speeches in Indian history.
The longest budget speech
Budget 2020 – Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman broke all records in the year 2020 by presenting the longest budget speech in India’s history. His speech for Budget 2020-21 lasted for 2 hours 42 minutes.
During this speech, Nirmala Sitharaman introduced many economic reforms like new tax system. However, during this speech he felt discomfort and finally Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had to come forward to read the last two pages of the budget speech. In 2020, Sitharaman broke his own record of 2 hours and 19 minutes in 2019 in making a budget speech.
The longest budget speech before Nirmala Sitharaman was given by Jaswant Singh in 2003, which was 2 hours 13 minutes. Arun Jaitley’s 2014 budget speech was 2 hours and 10 minutes long.
Shortest budget speech
The shortest budget speech so far was given by the then Finance Minister Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel in the year 1977. His interim budget speech of 1977 was only 800 words.
The longest budget speech in terms of words
The record for giving the longest budget speech in terms of words was set by Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister of India in 1991. His budget speech was 18,650 words that year. Under the Narasimha Rao government, Manmohan presented India’s most important budget in 1991, promoting liberalization.
