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New Delhi : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived at Parliament House on Wednesday carrying a tablet in a traditional red bag similar to a ledger, like in the last two years, to present the budget for the financial year 2023-24. Sitharaman along with her entourage of officials posed for photographs outside the Finance Ministry in a traditional manner. However, it was not the usual briefcase in his hand but the tablet in the red bag.
The red cloth enclosing the budget in digital format also had the Ashoka Pillar, the national emblem of golden colour, inscribed on it. After meeting President Draupadi Murmu, the Finance Minister directly reached the Parliament House. Earlier, the Finance Minister used to carry the budget in a red briefcase to the Parliament House. But since becoming the Finance Minister in the year 2019, Sitharaman had started presenting the budget wrapped in red cloth in the form of a ledger instead of a briefcase as per the Indian tradition.
In the midst of the Kovid epidemic, on the day of presenting the budget in 2021, Sitharaman presented a digital budget, making another change in it. For this, she was seen with a tablet wrapped in red cloth. After this, in the year 2022 and this year too, Sitharaman continued the process of presenting the digital budget. His budget for the financial year 2023-24 is the 11th consecutive general budget of the Modi government. It also includes an interim budget presented ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is the fifth minister in independent India to present five consecutive budgets. Apart from him, leaders who have given five consecutive budget and budget speeches are Arun Jaitley, P. Chidambaram, Yashwant Sinha, Manmohan Singh and Morarji Desai. After the Modi government came to power in 2014, the budget presentation date was changed from February 28 to February 1. It is now tabled in Parliament every year on February 1 at 11 am.
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