Nirmala Sitharaman delivered her sixth consecutive budget presentation, surprising observers with the shortest speech of her career at approximately 60 minutes. Notably, Sitharaman, who also holds the record for the longest-ever budget speech, condensed the entire 2024 interim budget into just 57 minutes.
Nirmala Sitharaman achieved the distinction of delivering the lengthiest Budget speech during the presentation of the Union Budget 2020–21 on February 1, 2020.
Union Budget 2024 Key Points: India s first Budget was announced in pre-independent India, on April 7, 1860, when Scottish economist and politician James Wilson - of the East India Company - presented it to the British Crown. Post Independence, India s first budget was presented on November 26, 1947 by then Finance Minister R K Shanmukham Chetty.
FM Nirmala Sitharaman's 2020 Budget speech, that went on for approximately 160 minutes, is considered the longest Budget speech by any finance minister in India's history.
Budget 2022: Know which were the longest Union Budget speeches till date - The shortest budget speech till date was delivered by former Finance Minister Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel in just 800 words in 1977.