Union Budget 2024: Longest and shortest budget speeches presented in Parliament
Hindustan TimesThe Union Budget 2024 is scheduled to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23, marking her seventh presentation of a Union Budget, which also makes her the first Finance Minister to present seven union budgets in a row. Nirmala Sitharaman : 2 hours 40 minutes The speech for the Union Budget 2020 delivered by Nirmala Sitharaman is India’s longest Union Budget speech. Nirmala Sitharaman : 2 hours 17 minutes Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech for the Union Budget 2020 was in fact, her second budget speech after becoming the Finance Minister in 2019. Jaswant Singh : 2 hours 13 minutes The record for the longest Union Budget speech was previously held by the then-Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, all the way back in 2003. Arun Jaitley : 2 hours 10 minutes The fourth longest Union Budget speech was by Arun Jaitley back in 2014, which went on for 2 hours and 10 minutes.