India, Feb. 1 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday presented the Budget for the financial year 2026-27 in a relatively short speech, by her own standards.

According to the official Press Information Bureau video of the Budget 2026 speech, Sitharaman's proposals lasted around 81 minutes or 1 hour 21 minutes. It is notable that she holds the record for the longest Budget speech in India's parliamentary history. During the 2020 Union Budget presentation, Sitharaman's address lasted 2 hours and 42 minutes.

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This is the third budget of the BJP-led NDA government in its third term in office and Sitharaman's ninth straight budget. Her first Budget speech in 2019 lasted 2 hours and 17 minu...