Finance Minister Sitharaman fallen sick while presenting the budget, yet gives record-breaking speech
Finance Minister Sitharaman fallen sick while presenting the budget, yet gives record-breaking speech
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New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had to interrupt her budget speech on Saturday as her health deteriorated during her 160-minute record address to the lower house of Parliament. She had to read two more pages of the budget speech, but during this time she started feeling unwell and the Finance Minister sweated her forehead.

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It is noteworthy that it had been more than two and a half hours when Nirmala Sitharaman suddenly stopped speaking. Everyone started asking what happened. Meanwhile, Nirmala Sitharaman drank water. Rajnath Singh, sitting near him, immediately asked, are you okay? To this Nirmala replied, 'I am fine'. Then when the speaker asked, she said, there are only two pages left. She smiled slightly and started reading back with a lot of courage but she had to apply a lot of strength. The words were not coming out because it was not easy for her to speak. She stopped speaking while speaking and took off her glasses.

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Meanwhile, her colleague in the cabinet Harsimrat Kaur ran to her seat. Everyone said to Sitharaman, sit down. Rajnath Singh said that now put the speech on the floor of the House. Everyone had understood that the finance minister's health was deteriorating. The Finance Minister did not sit. She started reading the speech after putting on glasses. To relieve the throat, Harsimrat Kaur gave her some candy, but Nirmala said that she had eaten. Speaking for so long, in a 45-page budget speech, she stopped suddenly on page 44 and had to leave the speech in between. However, she broke the record of earlier finance ministers' speeches. Sh gave a speech for a total of 2 hours and 40 minutes.

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