Budget 2022: FM Nirmala Sitharaman delivers her shortest budget speech - 1 hour 30 minutes

Budget 2022: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday delivered the Union Budget 2022-23 with her shortest budget speech so far. She spoke for one hour and 30 minutes, making it the shortest among the budget speeches that generally go for about 2 hours at least.

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According to news agency IANS, Sitharaman, who also made the second paperless budget presentation as she read the speech from a tab, also quoted a verse from Mahabharat's Shanti Parva. In 2019, she had made the longest speech at two hours and 15 minutes (135 minutes), only to top that the next year, in 2020, to speak for over 160 minutes.

Prior to her, Jaswant Singh had spoken for 2 hours 15 minutes in 2003. When it comes to word limit, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went on to create a record in his landmark 1991 speech - when he was Finance Minister in the P.V. Narasima Rao government -at 18,650 words.

Arun Jaitley's 2018 budget speech was a bit short at 18,604 words, which took one hour and 49 minutes to deliver. He however, spoke at length almost every time with word lengths beyond 16,000, the news agency IANS reported.

Union Budget 2022-23 presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today, February 1, 202 is now available on the Union Budget App Mobile App. The Union Government Budget App is available for download on Android’s Google Play Store and Apple’s iOS App Store. Union Government Budget App makes budget documents available to Members of the Parliament (MPs) and the general public alike in one place.

The mobile App allows complete access to 14 Union Budget documents, including the Budget Speech, Annual Financial Statement (commonly known as Budget), Demand for Grants (DG), Finance Bill, etc. as prescribed by the Constitution. The mobile app is bilingual (English & Hindi) and is available on both Android and iOS platforms. All the documents can be accessed in PDF format.