New Delhi | Newly sworn-in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget on July 5, in the 17th Lok Sabha.
Sitharaman is the second ever female to present the Union Budget in India, only after late PM Indira Gandhi.
The 17th Lok Sabha session is set to begin on 17 June and will continue till 26 July.
The first two days of the session will be devoted to swearing-in of the newly elected MPs while the Lok Sabha speaker will be elected on June 19.
President Ram Nath Kovind will address the joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament on the first day of the session. The pro tem speaker will also be appointed on the same day until the Speaker is chosen.
Both houses will also take up the Motion of Thanks on which PM Modi will give his reply.
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