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New Delhi (Rajeev Sharma): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget 2026 in Parliament on Sunday, February 1, becoming only the second finance minister in India’s history to deliver the budget on a Sunday. The last such instance was in 1999, when Yashwant Sinha presented the budget under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. The presentation also marks Sitharaman’s ninth consecutive budget under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The budget is being unveiled amid a relatively strong economic outlook. The Economic Survey 2026, presented in Parliament on Thursday, has projected India’s economy to grow by 7.4 per…