Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the highest number of consecutive Union budgets on February 1. She will present her eighth consecutive annual financial statement, a new record in India 's Parliamentary history.
Former finance minister Morarji Desai has presented 10 union budgets ,a feat yet to be surpassed. India's prime ministers have also delivered union budgets in the past. Budget of independent India was presented by then finance minister RK Shanmugam Chetty on November 26 , 1947, for ₹ 197.1 crore.