LUCKNOW, Feb. 12 -- If it was record-making 10th successive budget of the Yogi Adityanath government, UP finance minister Suresh Khanna too has scripted history by presenting his 7th budget in a row. He presented his first budget in 2020. And within this record-breaking performance, there has been one constant thing about Khanna's budget presentation-poetry in both Hindi and Urdu.

On Wednesday too, while presenting the UP Budget 2026-27, he interspersed the hard data, figures, statistics and economics with verses liberally in this one-hour-fifteen-minute speech. The verses evoked smiles and thumping from both the treasury and opposition benches, even when nearly half of those verses took a dig at the opposition.

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