Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman set a record for the lengthiest budget speech delivering a two-hour and 42-minute address during the Union Budget for 2020-21.
Manmohan Singh holds the record for the lengthiest budget speech in terms of words delivering 18,604 words in 1991 during the Narasimha Rao government
The briefest budget speech was given by Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel in 1977 comprising of just 800 words.
Former Prime Minister Moraraji Desai holds the record for presenting the most budget proposals in India's history having presented 10 budgets during his tenure as finance minister.
Until 1999 the Union Budget was presented at 5 pm on the last working day of February but Yashwant Sinha changed the timing to 11 am.
Until 1955, the Union Budget was exclusively presented in English but the Congress government decided to print it in both Hindi and English.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the budget for 2021-22 was completely digital marking a historic first for independent India.