New Delhi, 9 January. The budget session of Parliament will run from January 28 to April 2. The first phase of the session will run from January 28 to February 13, while the second phase will be held from March 9 to April 2. President Draupadi Murmu has approved convening the budget session of Parliament.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju gave information

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, while giving information on social media platform This session will start from January 28, 2026 and will continue till April 2, 2026. Kiren Rijiju wrote that the first phase will end on 13 February 2026 and Parliament will reconvene on 9 March 2026. This is an important step towards meaningful debate and people-centric governance.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the general budget on February 1.

At the same time, the general budget for the financial year 2026-27 will be presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. With this, everyone’s eyes – taxpayers, employees, farmers and industries – are now fixed on Budget 2026.

Since 2017-18, the General Budget is being presented by the Central Government continuously on 1st February. Stock exchanges have also indicated that if the budget is presented on Sunday, a special trading session will be held on this day.

This will be the ninth consecutive budget to be presented by Sitharaman.

This will be the ninth consecutive budget to be presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. He has already made the record of presenting the highest number of consecutive budgets. If she also presents another budget, she will equal the record of late Morarji Desai, who presented a total of 10 budgets in two terms, six between 1959 to 1964 and four between 1967 to 1969. Among other recent finance ministers, P. Chidambaram had presented nine budgets, while Pranab Mukherjee had presented eight budgets during the tenure of different prime ministers.