New Delhi, March 14 -- Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu will present the state budget for 2025-26 on Friday amid the ruling DMK's war of words with the BJP-ruled centre. This will be fifth Budget of the present DMK government since led by Chief Minister MK Stalin since storming to power in 2021.

The Budget speech will begin at 9.30 am in the Assembly Hall of the Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex at Fort St. George campus in Chennai.

This will be Thennarasu's second Budget after he was made the Finance Minister in a Cabinet shuffle in May 2023. Thennarasu presented his first Budget in February last year.

Later in the day, the Tamil Nadu assembly's Business Advisory Committee would meet and decide on the duration of the Budg...