Sangad Bhaban, April 27 -- It is said that marriage is about sparks flying, but for Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, the sparks in his in-laws' hometown of Sunamganj are getting a bit too literal for comfort.

In a rare moment of parliamentary levity on Monday, the Speaker jokingly questioned his own life choices during a serious discussion on the escalating threat of lightning strikes in Bangladesh's northeastern haor regions.

The comedic interlude struck during a notice brought forward by Sunamganj-1 MP Kamruzzaman Kamrul.

Australian Speaker Milton Dick meets Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

Kamrul, armed with data from NASA and the University of Maryland, pointed out that the haor region was identified as a global epicenter for lightning strikes...