Consider the following statements with reference to President 39 s address to Joint Session and disc...........

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Consider the following statements with reference to President's address to Joint Session and discussion on the Address by Motion of Thanks:

The first session after each general election and the first session of every fiscal year is addressed by the president.
A failure to get motion of thanks passed amounts to the defeat of the government and leads to the collapse of the government.
Recently, an amendment to the President’s Motion of Thanks has been passed in the Rajya Sabha for the first time in its history.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1&2 only

2&3 only

1&3 only

All of the above

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Explanation:

The Budget Session of Parliament commenced with the President’s address. The first session after each general election and the first session of every fiscal year is addressed by the president. In this address, the president outlines the policies and programmes of the government in the preceding year and ensuing year. This address of the president, which corresponds to the ‘speech from the Throne in Britain’, is discussed in both the Houses of Parliament on a motion called the ‘Motion of Thanks’. At the end of the discussion, the motion is put to vote. This motion must be passed in the House. Otherwise, it amounts to the defeat of the government. Before 2015, there were just three occasions on which the President’s Address was amended in the Rajya Sabha, once each during the tenures of Indira Gandhi, V.P. Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In 2015 Motion of Thanks was amended on the issue of black money. In 2016 the amendments focused on legislation passed by governments in Rajasthan and Haryana limiting the rights of citizens to contest panchayat elections.