Special address by the President
included in editionWhat does this mean?
The President addresses both Houses assembled together after a general Lok Sabha election and at the first session each year. Parliamentary rules provide time to discuss the matters referred to in the address.
The Union's President, ministers, Parliament, Supreme Court and Comptroller and Auditor-General.
Why is this provision here?
Representative government needs membership standards, regular sittings and structured communication between its constitutional institutions.
This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason. The later amendment records linked below document changes affecting this Article; their Bill statements explain those proposals, not necessarily every original clause or the complete present legal outcome.
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Source-page notes · may concern neighbouring Articles
2. Subs. by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, s. 7, for "every session" (w.e.f. 18-6-1951).
3. The words "and for the precedence of such discussion over other business of the House" omitted by s. 7, ibid. (w.e.f. 18-6-1951).
Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.