Question: Who presides over the joint session of parliament?
Answer: presided over by the Speaker
Disambiguated annotations:
qaPairs: question: Who normally presides over the joint session of parliament?
answer: Speaker of the Lok Sabha
question: In the absence of the speaker, who presides over the joint session of parliament?
answer: Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
question: If the speaker and deputy speaker are not available, who presides over the joint session of parliament?
answer: Deputy-Chairman of the Rajya Sabha