NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the fifth budget on Wednesday which is the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government in its second term. Among other things, the budget would be remembered for according special importance to women.
Before presenting Budget 2023 in Parliament, Sitharaman called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday morning. It was for the first time in the country’s history that a woman finance minister presented the budget to a woman president.