Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden Union Budget for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government on July 5.: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden Union Budget for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government on July 5. New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden Union Budget for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government on July 5. She presented the Union Budget 2019 amidst wide expectations given that PM Modi came back to power for the second time in a row with a bigger mandate than in 2014.