Finance Minister Sitharaman reached Parliament House with tablet in traditional red color bag

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman) to present the budget for the financial year 2023-24 (Budget 2023), like the last two years, today carrying a tablet in the traditional red color bag similar to the book-account, Parliament House. Had reached

Sitharaman along with her entourage of officers posed for photographs outside the Finance Ministry in a traditional style.

However, here instead of a normal briefcase in his hand, he had a tablet in a red bag.

The national symbol of golden color Ashoka Pillar was also inscribed on this red cloth containing the budget in digital format.

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 has 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 before the 2019 general elections.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is the fifth minister in independent India to present 5 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 date of presentation of the budget was changed from February 28 to February 1.

It is now presented in Parliament every year on February 1 at 11 am.



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