Union Budget 2025: Facts related to the Budget as FM Nirmala Sitharaman aims to make history with 8th consecutive presentation
The Hindu
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present record eighth consecutive Union Budget, focusing on economic growth and middle-class relief.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 will present a record eighth consecutive Union Budget that is expected to contain measures to shore up weakening economic growth and ease the burden on the middle class struggling with high prices and stagnant wage growth while being fiscally prudent.
This will take Ms. Sitharaman closer to the record of 10 budgets presented by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai over different periods. Desai had presented a total of 6 budgets during his tenure as finance minister in 1959-1964, and 4 budgets between 1967-1969.
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Former finance ministers P. Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee had presented nine and eight budgets, respectively, under different Prime Ministers.
Ms. Sitharaman, however, will continue to hold the record of presenting the most budget in on trot — eight straight budgets under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
She was in 2019 appointed as India's first full-time woman finance minister when Prime Minister Modi won a decisive second term. After Modi came back to power in 2024 for the third time, Ms. Sitharaman retained her finance portfolio.
So far, she has presented a total of seven straight budgets, including an interim one in February 2024.
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