Updated On: 01 February, 2024 03:45 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday presented her sixth consecutive budget (2024) with a speech lasting 56 minutes, her shortest-ever

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Interim Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. PTI Photo
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday presented her sixth consecutive budget (2024) with a speech lasting 56 minutes, her shortest-ever.
Sitharaman`s budget 2024 speech found no mention of Tamil poets and thinkers unlike previous occasions, but she referred to Prime Minister Modi at least eight times and quoted from his speeches.