Blitz Bureau
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made history by presenting her seventh consecutive Budget on July 23, surpassing the record of former Prime Minister and Finance Minister Morarji Desai.
Sitharaman, who holds the record for the longest budget speech delivered on February 1, 2020, which lasted two hours and 40 minutes before being cut short, will now also hold the record for the maximum consecutive budget presentations.
Desai presented six budgets during his tenure as Finance Minister from 1959 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1969.
Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai still holds the overall record for presenting the most number of budget speeches, with ten in total. He served as Finance Minister under former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
The Union Budget 2024 aims to lay a roadmap for Viksit Bharat by 2047.
