This will be the 89th Union budget, including interim ones. The first budget was an interim oneThe first Union budget of independent India covered a period of seven-and-a-half months from 15 August 1947 to 31 March 1948. The FM at the time, R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, presented the first Union budget on 26 November 1947. The long and short of budget speechesThe longest budget speech in terms of words was given by Manmohan Singh in 1991. Arun Jaitley is credited with delivering the second, third and fourth longest budget speeches in 2014, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

Source: Mint July 03, 2019 19:07 UTC