Union Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to break Morarji Desai's THIS record

Next month, when Finance Minister presents the Union Budget 2024-25 in Parliament, she will set a new record. Sitharaman will become the first in the country's history to deliver seven consecutive Union Budgets.

By achieving this milestone, Sitharaman will surpass the record held by , who presented six consecutive budgets as the country's Finance Minister about six decades ago.

Since July 2019, when she became the country's first full-time woman Finance Minister,  Sitharaman has presented five complete budgets and one interim budget, in February this year. She has already surpassed the five-budget streak of her predecessors, including , Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha, and she has also matched Morarji Desai's record of presenting six budgets in a row. 

According to sources, , who took charge as the country's Finance Minister for the earlier this week, is likely to table the full Union Budget in Parliament on . This will also be the first full budget of the newly-inducted third consecutive union government under Prime Minister Narendra. 

, who served as the country's Finance Minister, tabled five full budgets and one interim budget from 1959 to 1964. Desai presented 10 budgets, the highest by any .

became the fourth Prime Minister of India between March 24, 1977, and July 28, 1979.

Before Sitharaman, the late presented five consecutive budgets from 2014-15 to 2018-19. On February 1, 2019, , now the Union Commerce and Industry Minister, presented the interim budget for the fiscal 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 , who tabled the budget for the financial year 1970-71.