New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made history after she delivered the longest budget speech in the Parliament. Sitharaman spoke for about 160 minutes in the Lok Sabha while delivering her speech.
The Finance Minister, however, wasn’t able to complete her speech and she had to cut short it after she felt unwell. Sitharaman had only two pages of her budget speech when she felt uneasy and was seen wiping sweat from her forehead.
Some members of the Parliament also offered her candies but that did not help and the Finance Minister decided to discontinue the speech.
However, this was only after she delivered the longest ever budget speech. The 60-year-old broke her own record of a 2-hour-17-minute-long maiden Budget speech in July 2019.
She later laid budget documents and demand for grants for the next financial year in Rajya Sabha.
The Upper House, which met around 1:30 pm for tabling of budget documents, was adjourned as her speech was still continuing in Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha met again at 1:55 pm but was again adjourned for 10 minutes as Sitharaman reached late.
When she arrived in the upper house, many members approached her and were seen asking her wellbeing. After laying of papers, Chairman Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House till Monday.
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