Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman set to present seven consecutive Union Budgets, surpassing Morarji Desai’s six-budget streak.
Next month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will make history by presenting her seventh consecutive Union Budget, surpassing Morarji Desai’s record of six consecutive budgets from six decades ago.
Since July 2019, Sitharaman has delivered five complete budgets and one interim budget, matching Desai’s six-budget record. This upcoming budget will be her seventh, breaking the previous streaks of notable predecessors like Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha.
Scheduled for July 22, the Union Budget 2024-25 will also be the first full budget of the third consecutive union government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sitharaman’s continuous tenure as Finance Minister has marked significant milestones, including becoming the country’s first full-time woman Finance Minister and the second woman to present the budget after Indira Gandhi.
