Budget 2025: Finance Minister Sitharaman holds the record for longest budget speech
New Delhi| The budget session of Parliament began on 31 January 2025. On 01 February 2025, the Finance Minister will present the budget in the Lok Sabha for the eighth consecutive time. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds the record for the longest speech. The Finance Minister presented the interim budget on 1 February 2024, due to the holding of general elections in 2024. His budget speech then lasted 56 minutes. Modi government came to power for the third time after the general elections. The Minister of Finance then presented the full budget on 23 July 2024. This budget speech was 01 hours and 25 minutes. Earlier, Finance Minister Sitharaman had read an 87-minute budget speech for 2023-24. His budget speech in 2019 was 2 hours 17 minutes. In 2022, she spoke for 92 minutes.
Which Finance Minister gave the longest budget speech?
Nirmala Sitharaman also holds the record of 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 It ran for 2 hours 42 minutes. During this time, he had broken his own record of 2 hours 17 minutes of presenting the Union Budget 2019. Late Arun Jaitley’s 2014 budget speech was 2 hours 10 minutes long. Let us know which leader has given the shortest speech so far in the last years.
Finance Minister spoke for two hours and 17 minutes in the year 2019
In the year 2019, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her first budget for the financial year 2019-2020. With that speech, he broke the record for the longest budget address. She had spoken for two hours and 17 minutes. The following year, he broke his own record when he spoke for two hours and 42 minutes, presenting the budget for the year 2020-21. And that wasn’t even the whole speech! When he had to cut his speech short that day due to health concerns, he was left with two pages of the budget. His budget speech in 2021-22 was 100 minutes long. Whereas Nirmala Sitharaman had spoken for a total of one and a half hours in the budget of the year 2022-23.
Jaswant Singh also had the longest budget speech
Before Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP leader Jaswant Singh had the record of the longest budget speech. In 2003, he presented a budget of 2 hours 15 minutes.
Hirubhai M Patel gave the shortest budget speech
The shortest budget speech in the history of independent India was delivered by Hirubhai M Patel in 1977. He had given an interim budget speech of only 800 words. The shortest full budget speech was that of Y B Chavan, which was only 9300 words. The shortest speech in second place was offered by Morarji Desai with 10 thousand words.
Morarji Desai presented the general budget the maximum number of times, 10
So far, Morarji Desai has presented the general budget the maximum number of times, 10. After this, P Chidambaram presented the general budget nine times, Pranab Mukherjee also 9 times, Yashwant Rao Chavan 7 times, CD Deshmukh 7 times, Yashwant Sinha 7 times, Manmohan Singh 6 times and TT Krishnamachari also 6 times. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for the seventh consecutive time on 23 July 2024. Earlier on 01 February 2024, he presented the interim budget. This year the Finance Minister will present the budget for the eighth consecutive time.
