GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Morarji Desai has presented 10 budgets which is the highest count followed by P Chidambaram’s 9 and Pranab Mukherjee’s 8. Yashwant Sinha, Yashwantrao Chavan and C.D. Deshmukh have presented 7 budgets each while Manmohan Singh and T.T. Krishnamachari have presented 6 budgets, Nirmala Sitharaman has presented 5 budgets.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 2020, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman broke her own record of making the longest-ever budget address. Sitharaman spoke for two hours and 42 minutes while presenting the budget 2020-21.

Detailed explanation-3: -Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai holds the record of presenting the most number of Union Budgets in the history of the nation-he presented 10 Union Budgets!

Detailed explanation-4: -Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her fifth straight Union Budget on February 1, 2023. The FM, in her 2020 Budget speech spoke for 2 hours and 42 minutes, the longest in the history of Budget speeches.