Nirmala Sitharaman Sets Record with 8th Consecutive Union Budget Presentation
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Event | Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents her 8th consecutive Union Budget. |
| Date | February 01, 2025 |
| Significance | - First Budget under Modi 3.0 government. |
| - Highest number of back-to-back Budget presentations by any Finance Minister in India. | |
| Historical Context | - Became India's first full-time woman Finance Minister in 2019. |
| - Presented seven Union Budgets, including an interim Budget in February 2024. | |
| Record Comparison | - Closer to Morarji Desai's record of 10 Budgets (1959-1969). |
| - Other notable Finance Ministers: P. Chidambaram (9), Pranab Mukherjee (8), Manmohan Singh (5). | |
| Budget Speech Records | - Longest Budget speech: 2 hours 40 minutes (2020). |
| - Shortest Budget speech: 800 words by Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel (1977). | |
| Timing Changes | - Until 1999: Budget presented at 5 PM. |
| - 1999 Onwards: Shifted to 11 AM by Yashwant Sinha. | |
| - 2017: Budget presentation date moved from February 28 to February 1. |