Nirmala Sitharaman's budget speech, which came with a big bonanza for taxpayers, lasted for an hour and 17 minutes, shorter than the previous year's speech spanning 1 hour and 25 minutes.

His 2024-25 budget speech, as prepared, clocked in at 11,141 words, was the longest-documented budget speech. And it still is. Shapiro’s 2025-26 budget speech is slightly shorter than the ...

The longest budget speech in history *2020-2021 Nirmala Sitharaman: 2 hours 42 minutes The longest budget speech in the history of the nation was given by Nirmala Sitharaman. Her two-hour ...

Two years later, in 2021, she moved to a paperless budget ... which means a small leather briefcase. The tradition of Budget speech goes back to 18th Century Britain when the Chancellor of the ...