Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's parents, Savitri Sitharaman and Narayanan Sitharaman, arrived at the Parliament on Friday for her maiden budget speech. Sitharaman broke the tradition of carrying budget in a leather briefcase and carried the 'bahi khata' in a red cloth. "Ditching briefcase symbolises our departure from slavery of western thought," CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian said.