Sitharaman discards briefcase, carries ‘bahi-khata’
PTI, Jul 5, 2019, 11:48 AM IST
New Delhi: In a departure from the past, India’s first full-time woman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman carried the Union Budget documents in a red bag, reminiscence of the traditional ‘bahi-khata’.
Earlier, finance ministers in different governments used to carry a briefcase to present budget, which was considered as a tradition of colonial past.
During the Atal Behari Vajpayee governemtn, the then finance minister Yashwant Sinha broke the one colonial tradition of budget presentation at 5 pm.
Since then all governments have been presenting the budget at 11 am.
Bahi-Khata is referred to books of account maintained by traditional Indian businessmen.
Commenting on the shift from a briefcase to bahi-khata, Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian said the government is following “Indian tradition”.
It is in Indian tradition. It symbolizes our departure from slavery of Western thought. It is not a Budget, but a Bahi-Khata (ledger).
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