This brings Sitharaman closer to the milestone of 10 budgets presented over various time periods by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai. When Desai served as finance minister from 1959 to 1964, he submitted 6 budgets in total, and from 1967 to 1969, he presented 4. Under various prime ministers, former finance ministers P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee had presented 9 and 8 budgets, respectively.