New Delhi. Where on the one hand, the fourth budget of the second term of the Modi government (Budget 2022) is going to be presented on February 1. At the same time, Nirmala Sitharaman will also have the fourth budget as the Finance Minister. Let us tell you that the record of presenting the longest budget speech in the country is held in the name of Nirmala Sitharaman.
He did this amazing feat while presenting the budget for the financial year 2020-21, when he gave his speech of 2 hours 42 minutes long. With this introduction, Sitharaman broke her own record of 2 hours and 17 minutes long speech set in July 2019.
But friends, such a budget speech has also been given in the country, which was of only 800 words. Yes, such a short budget speech was given by Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel in 1977. It is worth noting that this is called the shortest budget speech in the history of India.
Patel was the 11th Finance Minister of India
Let us tell the readers that Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel became the Finance Minister on 26 March 1977 in the Morarji Desai government. He was the 11th Finance Minister of the country. He served as the Finance Minister till 24 January 1979. After this, in 1979, he also became the Home Minister of the country.
He had the most words in his budget
However, the record of using the most words in the budget speech is in the name of former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Yes friends, there were only 18,650 words in the budget speech given by Manmohan Singh in the year 1991. After him, Arun Jaitley has the second place in terms of using the most words in the budget speech. In Jaitley’s budget speech for the year 2018, 18,604 words were used.