PRAYAGRAJ: In a tragic incident, the six-year-old granddaughter of Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Allahabad, Rita Bahuguna Joshi sustained severe burns on Monday evening and died at a city hospital late night even as the family had made all preparations to airlift her to Delhi for advanced treatment and care.
Kiya, the daughter of BJP MP’s son Mayank had sustained serious burns on Monday evening while playing with diyas and was rushed to a private hospital in the city. She, however, breathed her last late on Monday night.
BJP MP’s media in-charge Abhishek Shukla told TOI that Kiya had sustained severe burns while playing at her maternal grandparents' Ponappa Road residence in Cantt area on Monday evening. Kiya had sustained 60% burns, said doctors of the private city hospital where she was immediately rushed for treatment.
The family had made all arrangements to shift the critically injured girl to Delhi through air ambulance for advanced treatment and care on Tuesday morning, but her condition worsened late night and she passed away, said Shukla.
The cremation was held at the electric crematorium in Daraganj and the ashes were immersed in the Ganga.Meanwhile, senior BJP leaders, including Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, BJP MP (Phulpur) Keshri Devi Patel, cabinet minister Nand Gopal Gupta, BJP MLAs Ajay Bharti and Neelam Karwariya, former governor Keshri Nath Tripathi, leaders from Samajwadi Party and Congress visited Joshi’s house at Minto Road to express condolence and consoled the family.