Union Budget 2025: 5 record-breaking achievements of FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman delivered her seventh consecutive Union Budget speech in 2024, surpassing Moraji Desai's record of presenting six consecutive budgets.

She delivered the longest budget speech in Indian history in 2020, lasting 2 hours and 42 minutes.

She became the first woman to independently present a full Union Budget in 2019.

She is the longest-serving female finance minister of India.

She was the first woman to serve as India’s full-time Defence Minister from 2017 to 2019.