Which Indian Finance Ministers have been PMs or Presidents?
Morarji Desai, who holds the record for presenting the most number of Budgets, became the fourth Prime Minister in 1977. Similarly, Charan Singh served as the PM for a brief period from July 1979 to January 1980. Manmohan Singh served as the PM from 2004 to 2014 while R Venkataraman and Pranab Mukherjee became India's 8th and 13th Presidents respectively.