In 2020, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman broke her personal report of constructing the longest-ever funds deal with. Sitharaman spoke for 2 hours and 42 minutes whereas presenting the funds 2020-21. The minister had two pages to go when she needed to lower quick her speech because of well being considerations.
In 2019, Sitharaman had offered her maiden funds for 2019-2020. She spoke for 2 hours and 17 minutes.
Final yr, in Price range 2022, Sitharaman spoke for a complete of 1 and a half hours solely. It was her shortest-ever funds deal with. She has offered 4 budgets up to now. On Wednesday, Sitharaman will current her fifth Union funds.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram apparently took a dig on the finance minister.
“@KartiPC Hope it’s quick! @nsitharaman,” he tweeted.
Nevertheless, the longest speech was not the Price range speech that had the utmost phrases. Information present that at 18,650 phrases, Manmohan Singh delivered the longest Price range speech when it comes to phrases in 1991 beneath the Narasimha Rao authorities. In 2018, finance minister Arun Jaitley’s speech had 18,604 phrases. he report of the shortest Price range speech was set in 1977 by then finance minister Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel. It had 800 phrases.