Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget for the fiscal year 2019-2020, was the longest Budget speech ever. Sitharaman's speech lasted two hours and 17 minutes.
Sitharaman’s speech was longer than former FM Jaswant Singh’s 2003 speech by four minute. Former PM and FM Manmohan Singh’s 1991 Budget speech was the longest in terms of words at 18,650.
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