Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 23.

New Delhi : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 23. Finance Minister is going to create history with this. Sitharaman will be the country’s first Finance Minister to present the Union Budget for the seventh time in a row. With this, he will surpass Morarji Desai’s record. Morarji Desai presented the budget six times in a row. Notably, before Sitharaman, Morarji Desai presented five full budgets and one interim budget. Morarji Desai served as the Finance Minister of the country from 1959 to 1964. It is worth noting that Union Minister Kiren Rijiju himself gave this information on Twitter. He wrote that this time the budget session will start from July 22, which will continue till August 12. Along with this, Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget for the seventh consecutive time. According to the information, this is the first full budget of the third term of the Modi government. Also, this time’s budget is expected to give special attention to infra, EV sector and MSME sector. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has already left behind Finance Ministers Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, Manmohan Singh and Yashwant Sinha who have presented budgets 5 times in a row. According to information, in 2019, Nirmala Sitharaman presented her first budget speech as the country’s first full-time woman finance minister.