Union Budget 2024

Producer: Peuli Bakshi Editor: Mohit Bisht

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Nirmala Sitharaman (2020): Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget speech in 2020 was by far the longest, lasting 2 hours and 40 minutes.

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Nirmala Sitharaman (2019): It was the first Budget presentation by India's first full-time woman Finance minister. It lasted 2 hours and 17 minutes.

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Jaswant Singh (2003): His Budget speech was 2 hours and 13 minutes long. Among the key proposals was universal health insurance.

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Arun Jaitley (2014): His Budget speech lasted 2 hours and 10 minutes long. Among the key proposals was setting up more AIIMS in the coming years.

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Manmohan Singh (1991): He delivered the longest Budget speech in terms of words (18,650 words), under the Narasimha Rao government.

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Arun Jaitley (2018): He has the record for the second longest Budget speech in terms of words (18,604 words).

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The shortest Union Budget speech in terms of word count was presented by the former Finance minister, Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel.

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Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel (1977): Patel's interim budget speech consisted of just 800 words. He was the finance minister under Morarji Desai's cabinet.

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