Budget 2024: Key facts that you must know.

India's First Budget

On April 7, 1860, Scottish politician and economist James Wilson presented the first budget to the British Crown.

Longest Budget speech

FM Nirmala Sitharaman is the record holder for the longest budget speech, having spoken for two hours and forty-two minutes.

Most wordy speech

In 1991, Manmohan Singh, who was Finance Minister at the time, gave the longest budget speech—18,650 words.

Shortest Budget speech

The budget speech given by Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel, in 1977 was only 800 words long.

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Record for presenting the most Budgets

Morarji Desai has the record for delivering the maximum number of budgets in history—10 budgets from 1962 to 1969.

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