UPSC 2020: Consider the following statements : 1. The President of India can summon a session of the Parliament at such place as he/she thinks fit. 2. The Constitution of India provides for three sessions of the Parliament in a year, but it is not mandatory to conduct all three sessions. 3. There is no minimum number of days that the Parliament is required to meet in a year. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

Article 85(1) empowers the President to summon each House “at such time and place as he thinks fit”, so Statement 1 is correct. The Constitution does not prescribe that Parliament must meet in three specific sessions; it only requires that the gap between two sessions not exceed six months, so Statement 2 is incorrect. Neither Article 85 nor any other provision lays down a minimum number of sitting-days in a year, making Statement 3 correct. Hence only 1 and 3 are true. ([constitutionofindia.net](https://www.constitutionofindia.net/articles/article-85-sessions-of-parliament-prorogation-and-dissolution/?utm_source=openai))