Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reached the finance ministry on Tuesday ahead of her seventh consecutive Budget today, July 23, to be presented in the Parliament at 11 am. The Union Budget 2024 is the first complete financial budget of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in its third consecutive term.
With this, Sitharaman has become the first finance minister to present seven consecutive Budget speeches. She will now surpass former Prime Minister Morarji Desai’s record of six consecutive budgets as finance minister between 1959 and 1964.
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