Union Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will break record
By achieving this milestone, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will surpass Morarji Desai's record of presenting six consecutive budgets as the country's finance minister nearly six decades ago.
Union Budget 2024: Next month, when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2024-25 in Parliament, she will set a new record. Nirmala Sitharaman will be the first Finance Minister in the country’s history to present seven consecutive Union Budgets.
By achieving this milestone, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will surpass Morarji Desai’s record of presenting six consecutive budgets as the country’s finance minister nearly six decades ago. Since July 2019, when she became the country’s first full-time woman finance minister, Sitharaman has presented five full budgets and one interim budget in February this year.
She has already surpassed her previous budget streak of five including Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram and Yashwant Sinha and has also equaled Morarji Desai’s record of six consecutive budgets. According to sources, Narendra Modi cabinet 3.0 finance minister, who took over as the country’s finance minister for a second term earlier this week, is likely to present the full Union Budget 2024-25 in Parliament on July 22, the first full budget of the newly-inducted third successive Union government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Morarji Desai, who served as the country’s finance minister, presented five full budgets and one interim budget from 1959 to 1964. Desai presented 10 budgets, the most by any finance minister in India. Desai became the fourth Prime Minister of India between March 24, 1977 and July 28, 1979.
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Before Nirmala Sitharaman, late Arun Jaitley presented five consecutive budgets from 2014-15 to 2018-19. On February 1, 2019, Piyush Goyal, now the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, presented the Interim Budget for the financial year 2019-20.
After the 2019 general elections, Nirmala Sitharaman became the finance minister, becoming the second woman to present the budget after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who presented the budget for the financial year 1970-71.
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