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Who holds the file for delivering longest finances speech in Parliament? – India TV
Price range 2025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who has, thus far, offered a complete of seven straight budgets underneath the Modi authorities, together with an interim one in February 2024, is ready to desk her eighth consecutive finances on February 1 (Saturday). In 2020, Sitharaman created a singular file for delivering the longest finances speech as Union Finance Minister within the Parliament.
The finances 2020-21 speech continued over 2 hours 42 minutes spelling out 13,128 phrases. The speech began at 11 am and prolonged till 1.40 pm, which implies Sitharaman spoke for two hours and 42 minutes. The finances speech might have been extended extra however as a consequence of well being points, she needed to lower quick. The remaining two pages of the speech had been learn by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
Sitharaman, within the longest finances speech, focussed on creating higher requirements of well being, schooling, job creation, enlargement of the nationwide gasoline grid and growth of 100 extra airports, the announcement of the tax constitution.
Considerably, Sitharaman’s first finances speech was additionally a protracted one. Whereas presenting finances 2019-20, she spoke for 2 hours and 17 minutes within the Lok Sabha.
In 2022, the finance minister delivered one-and-a-half hours finances speech, which was her shortest-ever finances speech.
Curiously, essentially the most 8,650-word finances speech file just isn’t held by Sitharaman however by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. The historic finances of 1991 marked a turning level within the financial revolution of India. The finances 1991 paved the best way for financial liberalisation in India which later turned out to be a recreation changer.
Who holds the file for shortest finances speech?
In 1997, Finance Minister Hirubhai M Patel delivered the shortest finances speech within the Parliament. The speech was simply 800 phrases.
