Budget speeches have gotten longer

This year the finance minister Arun Jaitley capped his budget speech at 166 paragraphs. Though he spoke for close to two hours, this is not the most he has had to say in a budget speech. His 2014 speech was the longest ever with 253 paragraphs. Pranab Mukherjee’s 2012 budget speech was the second longest with 220 paragraphs followed by P Chidambaram whose 2003 and 2002 budget speeches had 196 and 192 paragraphs respectively.Here’s a look at how with the passing years budget speeches have grown longer.

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