Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

On July 23rd, 2024, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the FY25 Union Budget, marking her seventh consecutive Budget presentation. This achievement will make her the first Finance Minister to present the Budget seven times in a row.

Key Points

She is a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Karnataka constituency.
She is the first full-time woman Finance Minister of India, a position she assumed in May 2019.
She has served as the Defence Minister from 2017 to 2019.
She surpass the record of Morarji Desai who presented six budgets consecutively. Morarji Desai served as the finance minister from 1959 to 1963 and 1967 to 1969. He holds the record of presenting the most number of budgets. He has presented ten budgets in total.
She holds the record for the longest budget speech presented on 1^st February 2020, lasting two hours and 40 minutes.