Union Budget 2026: Making new records & surpassing old ones: Nirmala Sitharaman presents 9th budget in Parliament

New Delhi, 1/2: Presented on Sunday for the first time and prepared in a new office but printed in the press in the old office, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman created Parliamentary records when she presented her ninth consecutive budget

Nirmala, India’s only second woman Finance Minister after Indira Gandhi, had presented the budgets on Saturday twice — in 2020 and 2025.

With the Budget for 2026-27, Nirmala has equalled the record of P Chidambaram, who presented nine budgets but only five have the distinction of being consecutiv