Union Budget 2022: Here's looking at Longest and shortest Budget speeches given by India's Finance Ministers

FM Nirmala Sitharaman's 2020 Budget speech, that went on for approximately 160 minutes, is considered the longest Budget speech by any finance minister in India's history. 

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in 2020 presented her second Union Budget that focussed towards boosting India's economic growth and maintaining the fiscal disciple. Sitharaman broke her own record of her maiden Budget speech in July 2019. Her 2020 Budget speech, that went on for approximately 160 minutes, is considered the longest Budget speech by any finance minister in India's history. 

Sitharaman had only two pages of her Budget speech unread when she appeared uneasy and was seen wiping sweat from her forehead. She was offered candies by her ministerial colleagues, but that did not help and she opted to discontinue the speech asking Speaker Om Birla to consider the remaining part of her speech as read. (Also read: Union Budget 2022: Meet James Wilson, the man who created India's first-ever Budget)