New Delhi: The Maiden Budget of the Narendra Modi Government in the second tenure was presented in the Lok Sabha this morning. It was Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s first Budget and also the second fiscal proposals of a financial year by any woman Finance Minister. Indira Gandhi has been the only woman to have presented Budget for fiscal 1970-71.
The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had taken over the Finance portfolio following resignation of Morarji Desai as the Finance Minister. Sitharaman also perhaps holds a unique experience of directly dealing three core sectors of economy and budget-making — the Commerce, the Industry and the Defence in her first term in the Union Council of Ministers under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
