New Delhi: The Union Budget is to be presented in the House today. This will be the first budget for the Modi government's second term. Since Independence, 88 Union Budgets have been presented. However, the longest budget speech ever made is by Manmohan Singh while he was Finance Minister. The longest budget speech of 18,177 words was delivered by the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh in 1991. Whereas, the shortest speech was introduced by HM Patel in 1977. The smallest budget speech of 800 words was given by HM Patel. Let us know some of the unique budget features...

First Budget for Short Time...

For information, the first Union Budget was presented after Independence from 15th August 1947 to 31st March 1948. However, because of the India-Pakistan division, it could not be planned for the stipulated time and then the first Budget was presented by the then Finance Minister R.K. Shanmukham Chetti on 26th November 1947.

These three Prime Ministers had presented the Budget.

More importantly, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are the three Prime Ministers who have presented the Budget as Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi also took over as Finance Minister in 1970 and thus became the first woman finance minister to present the Indira Gandhi Budget in 1970. After 49 years, the budget is going to be presented to Nirmala Sitharaman as the second woman finance minister.

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