The budget session of Parliament will be held in two parts from January 31 to April 4. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget for the eighth time on February 1. According to the provisional calendar released by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, the session will begin on January 31 with the address of President Draupadi Murmu in the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. After this, the Economic Survey will be presented on the same day.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju wrote on the social media platform X, "President Draupadi Murmu has approved the convening of both the Houses of Parliament for the Budget Session 2025 from 31 January 2025 to 4 April 2025 on the recommendation of the Government of India." He informed that President Murmu will address the joint sitting of both the Houses in the Lok Sabha Chamber at 11 am on January 31.

Rijiju wrote, "The Union Budget 2025-26 will be presented in the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2025. The proceedings of both the Houses will be adjourned for a long break on February 13. The proceedings of Parliament will resume on March 10 in which the grant demands of various ministries/departments will be discussed and the budget will be passed. The first part of the budget session will have nine meetings from January 31 to February 13.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will respond to the motion of thanks in the President's address, while Finance Minister Sitharaman will respond to the discussion on the budget. There will be 27 meetings in the entire budget session and it will end on April 4. In July last year, a few weeks after the formation of the new government at the Center, Finance Minister Sitharaman presented her seventh budget and thus broke the record of the late Morarji Desai of presenting six consecutive budgets.

Finance Minister Sitharaman had earlier served as a minister in the PM Modi-led government between 2014 and 2017. She was Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs from May to November 2014 and then Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from May 2014 to September 2017. Later, she was promoted to senior positions in the Union Cabinet.

Sitharaman was the Defence Minister in the first cabinet led by PM Modi during the 2019 Balakot surgical strike. She got the charge of the Finance Ministry in the Modi 2.0 cabinet in 2019 and has been the Finance Minister since then.

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