Budget 2025, Feb. 1 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2025 at 11 am, today. This will be Sitharaman's eighth consecutive Budget and her second full-fledged budget of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government formed in 2024.

1- Budget without BJP majority: Budget 2025 is Modi government second full budget without a majority post 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was reduced to 240 seats in the 2024 general elections.

The previous budget by Nirmala Sitharaman was presented in July 2024. The government got a little over a month after the Lok Sabha election results to present the budget.

In the past two terms, the BJP enjoyed a brute majority on its own.

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