<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Interim Budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 on February 1. This will be the last Budget of the Narendra Modi government before the country heads to Lok Sabha elections. </p><p>The Budget speech is one of the Parliament's biggest highlights of the year, and in this context here we have a look at who presented the longest Budget ever. </p><p>Current Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman herself holds the record for delivering the longest Budget speech.</p><p>During the 2020 Union Budget on February 1, her presentation commenced at 11 am and extended until 1:40 pm, which means she spoke for two hours and 42 minutes. </p><p>She had to cut short her speech due to health concerns with only two pages remaining. The rest of the Budget was read out by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.</p>.Five Budgets that shaped the Indian economy.<p>In her first Budget speech for the year 2019-2020, Sitharaman spoke for two hours and 17 minutes. </p><p>In the year 2022, Sitharaman spoke for a total of one and a half hours only, which makes it her shortest-ever Budget speech.</p>.<p>However, the record for the most words in a Budget speech was by Manmohan Singh, who delivered a 18,650-words speech in 1991 when he was the Finance Minister of the Narasimha Rao government. It was in this speech that he announced measures for the liberalisation of Indian economy.</p><p>In 2018, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's speech comprised 18,604 words. </p><p>Notably, the shortest Budget speech was in 1977 by then Finance Minister Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel, whose speech had only 800 words.</p>
<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Interim Budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 on February 1. This will be the last Budget of the Narendra Modi government before the country heads to Lok Sabha elections. </p><p>The Budget speech is one of the Parliament's biggest highlights of the year, and in this context here we have a look at who presented the longest Budget ever. </p><p>Current Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman herself holds the record for delivering the longest Budget speech.</p><p>During the 2020 Union Budget on February 1, her presentation commenced at 11 am and extended until 1:40 pm, which means she spoke for two hours and 42 minutes. </p><p>She had to cut short her speech due to health concerns with only two pages remaining. The rest of the Budget was read out by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.</p>.Five Budgets that shaped the Indian economy.<p>In her first Budget speech for the year 2019-2020, Sitharaman spoke for two hours and 17 minutes. </p><p>In the year 2022, Sitharaman spoke for a total of one and a half hours only, which makes it her shortest-ever Budget speech.</p>.<p>However, the record for the most words in a Budget speech was by Manmohan Singh, who delivered a 18,650-words speech in 1991 when he was the Finance Minister of the Narasimha Rao government. It was in this speech that he announced measures for the liberalisation of Indian economy.</p><p>In 2018, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's speech comprised 18,604 words. </p><p>Notably, the shortest Budget speech was in 1977 by then Finance Minister Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel, whose speech had only 800 words.</p>