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    "content": "(b) address a special sitting of Parliament once every year and may address Parliament at any other time;” And so on, and so forth. His address is subject to serious debate. In his address, among others, he is expected to:- “(i) report, in an address to the nation, on all the measures taken and the progress achieved in the realisation of the national values, referred to in Article 10; Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very important subject and, in fact, I would like to use this opportunity to request the Senate Majority Leader, because he doubles up also as the Leader of the party that is in Office representing the President in this House. We do not use powers as such on our side because we understand the Constitution to mean that those who are in office are basically servants, and that the serving President is the President on the side of the Senate Majority Leader. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to remind the Senate Majority Leader that it is important that the Presidential Address be done before 4th March, which is not very far. Because if it says once every year, I would assume that in the first one year of the President, the only address he has given all of us was during the opening of Parliament, and he has not done the second address, which is this Special Address which I understand the Americans would call “The State of the Nation Address.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope the Senate Majority Leader is taking notes on that issue so that, later, he will make a point on that. On that note, because of the seriousness of this Procedural Motion and its implication on what the Senate should respond to on the issues that the President will have addressed, I would like to do an amendment, but not in the manner in which the Senate Minority Leader – because of the many contradictions in his life – had suggested."
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