Union Budget 2024-25: Nirmala Sitharaman to present Budget for a record seventh time in a row
The Hindu
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present record seventh consecutive Union Budget on July 23, 2024.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 23, 2024.
It will be a record seventh consecutive Budget presentation for Ms. Sitharaman.
Previously, Morarji Desai presented the Union Budget for six times consecutively. Interestingly, Morarji Desai presented budgets for record 10 times followed by former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram 9 times.
The former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented five consecutive budgets in a row between 1991 and 1995. Pranab Mukherjee also presented budgets for five times consecutively out of his 8 presentations.
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