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Nirmala Sitharaman’s 8th budget
February 4 , 2025
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- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made history as she presented a record eighth consecutive budget.
- This will take Ms. Nirmala closer to the record of 10 budgets that were presented by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai over different time periods.
- She will continue to hold the record of presenting the maximum number of the budgets on the trot - eight straight budgets under same PM
- Desai has presented a total of 6 budgets during his tenure as finance minister from 1959 to 1964, and 4 budgets between 1967 and 1969.
- Former finance ministers P. Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee had presented nine and eight budgets, respectively, under different prime ministers.
- The first-ever Union Budget of independent India was presented on November 26, 1947, by the nation's first finance minister R K Shanmukham Chetty.
- Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented five straight budgets between 1991 and 1995.
- Sitharaman holds the record for the longest budget speech when her presentation on February 1, 2020, lasted two hours and 40 minutes.
- Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel's interim Budget speech in 1977 is so far the shortest at just 800 words.
- The Budget presentation date was in 2017 changed to the 1st of February to allow the government to complete the Parliamentary approval process by March-end.
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