New Delhi: US President Barack Obama, who will undertake his first State visit to India in November, is expected to address a joint session of Parliament, an honour that his predecessor George W Bush could not have. Obama is expected to address the joint session on November nine, government sources said here today.

In view of this plan, the Winter Session of Parliament, that usually starts in the second week of November, will be advanced, they said. Obama, who took over as the US President in January last year, will be undertaking his first State visit to India with an aim of pushing the bilateral ties to new heights. Bush, who visited India in March 2006, could not have the honour of addressing the joint session of Parliament of the world's largest democracy.