Constitution of India, 1949
92. The Chairman or the Deputy chairman not to
preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration.-
(1) At any sitting of the Council of States,
while any resolution for the removal of the Vice-President from his office is
under consideration, the Chairman, or while any resolution for the removal of
the Deputy Chairman from his office is under consideration, the Deputy
Chairman, shall not, though he is present, preside, and the provisions of
clause (2) of Article 91 shall apply in relation to every such sitting as they
apply in relation to a sitting from which the chairman, or, as the case may be,
the Deputy Chairman, is absent.
(2) The Chairman shall have the right to speak
in, and otherwise to take part in proceedings of, the Council of States while
any resolution for the removal of the Vice President from his office is under
consideration in the Council, but, notwithstanding anything in Article 100,
shall not be entitled to vote at all on such resolution or on any other matter
during such proceedings.