New delhi sources stated that the first Union Budget of Independent india was presented by rk Shanmukhan Chetty on November 26, 1947. Reports added indira gandhi was the first woman Finance Minister to present the Union Budget in 1970. So, Nirmala Sitharaman will be the second woman Finance Minister to present the Union Budget in 2019. Apparently, Nirmala will be the first full-time woman Finance Minister to present the budget since indira gandhi was also Prime Minister when she had presented the budget for 1970-71.
Reportedly Nirmala Sitharaman is going to present the 89th Union Budget (including interim budgets) and the longest budget speech was made by Manmohan Singh in 1991 with 18,364 words. arun jaitley had come close to Manmohan's record in 2014-15 budget speech with 16,552 words. chidambaram delivered relatively smaller budget speeches.
Moreover Morarji Desai holds the record for delivering highest number of budgets - 10 and chidambaram is the second to Morarji Desi as he delivered 8 budgets so far.
