Question: Who presides over the joint session of parliament?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Who normally presides over the joint session of parliament?
In the absence of the speaker, who presides over the joint session of parliament?
If the speaker and deputy speaker are not available, who presides over the joint session of parliament?
answer: Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Deputy-Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Natural Questions answer: presided over by the Speaker (from the Wikipedia article "Joint Session of Indian Parliament")