Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivers India's longest Union Budget speech for 2024-25, lasting 1 hr 25 min.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered her seventh consecutive Union Budget for 2024-25, lasting 1 hour and 25 minutes, breaking her own previous record of 2 hours and 42 minutes set in 2020. This marks the longest and shortest speeches in Indian budget history, with Sitharaman's 2019 speech lasting 2 hours and 17 minutes and her interim budget speech in 2024 at 57 minutes.

July 22, 2024
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