Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present Budget 2026 on February 1, the first time it'll be presented on a Sunday. Her Budget 2020 speech was India's longest ever (162 minutes), while Dr Manmohan Singh's 1991 speech was the longest by words (18,700 words). Hirubhai Muljibhai's 1977 speech was the shortest (800 words), and Sitharaman's 2024 speech was shortest by time.