Finance Ministers with most number of Budget presentations
Finance Ministers with most number of Budget presentations
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to make history by presenting her eighth consecutive budget on February 1. She will surpass the record of Morarji Desai who presented six budgets consecutively. A look at the Finance Ministers who presented the most number of budgets.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will create a record of presenting the highest number of consecutive Union budgets on February 1. The budget for the financial year (FY) 2025-26 will mark her eighth consecutive annual financial statement, a new record in India's Parliamentary history.
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Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai holds the record for presenting the most budgets. He has presented a total of 10 budgets during his tenure as finance minister under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and later under Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. He presented his first budget on February 28, 1959, and presented full budgets in the following two years before presenting an interim one in 1962. This was followed by two full budgets. After four years, he presented another interim budget in 1967, followed by three full budgets in 1967, 1968, and 1969, presenting a total of 10 budgets.
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Former finance minister P Chidambaram presented the budget on nine occasions. He first presented the Budget on March 19, 1996, during the United Front government led by Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda. He presented another budget under the same government next year and returned to the hot seat when the Congress-led UPA came to power in 2014. He presented five budgets between 2004 and 2008. After a stint as Union Home Minister, he was back in the finance ministry and presented budgets in 2013 and 2014.
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Pranab Mukherjee presented eight budgets during his tenure as finance minister. He presented budgets in 1982, 1983 and 1984 and five straight ones between February 2009 and March 2012 in the Congress-led UPA government.
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Yashwant Sinha, a key figure in the BJP-led NDA government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, presented 7 budgets. His tenure is remembered for introducing reforms aimed at liberalizing India's economy.
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C.D. Deshmukh (1951-1956) The first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), C.D. Deshmukh, also presented 7 budgets. He played a crucial role in formulation and implementation of first and second Five-Year Plans.
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Manmohan Singh, Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented five straight budgets between 1991 and 1995 when he was finance minister in the P V Narasimha Rao government.