Nirmala Sitaraman: At the time of the Union Budget… Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s records… in a way that is not possible for anyone..!

Nirmala Sitaraman: The whole of India is eagerly waiting for today’s Union Budget (Union Budget 2023). Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to present the budget for a record fifth consecutive time as the Finance Minister. With this, she has set a record as the woman who will present the budget the most times. On the other hand, Nirmala Sitharaman, who presented the budget four times in a row, has already opened up to new traditions. Many methods have changed. Let’s find out what those features are in the context of today’s budget.

Leather suitcase ban..

While copies of the Union Budget have been introduced since the British period, till 2018 it was brought only in a leather suitcase. But in 2019, Nirmala Sitharaman checked this tradition for the first time as Finance Minister. She brought these budget copies in a red cloth bag called bahi account. The national emblem is printed on it. This opened up to Indian culture.

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Digital Budget was introduced during Corona. It has become a new tradition. A new app has also been launched. Made in a way that everyone can understand.

Nirmala Sitharaman, who took charge as Finance Minister in 2019, created history as the first woman to serve as a full-time Finance Minister. She introduced the budget from the same year. While Indira Gandhi was the first woman to introduce the budget, Nirmala Sitharaman was the second woman. But Indira Gandhi was only a temporary finance minister. This time, she will create history as a woman who presented the budget five times in a row and five times in total.

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Long speech..

Nirmala Sitharaman is not only the woman who has introduced the budget in the parliament the most times, but also the record of giving the longest budget speech. For the first time, he delivered a speech for 137 minutes in the 2019-20 budget, which was the same record till then. That’s a long speech. In 2003-04, Jaswant Singh delivered a budget speech lasting 135 minutes. And in 2020-21, he gave a speech for 162 minutes and rewrote his own record.

Also Nirmala Sitharaman is credited with introducing four or five mini budgets in different forms during Corona. And we have to wait for more new records to be created in the budget this time. This time, in the background of Modi Sarkar’s last 2.O for the budget, there are many expectations on this. The middle class has high hopes.

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