At 7.30 p.m., as the flames started rising from the funeral pyre of BRS MLA Lasya Nanditha, there was a chilling calm. The family members watched in hushed silence holding each other’s hands at the East Marredpally’s Smashana Vatika, located about four km from her residence in Karkhana’s Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad.
The silence was an arc of grief away from the inconsolable wailing that followed the news of Nanditha’s death in a road accident. The families of neighbours and party workers shared the grief after her body was shifted to her residence, an upper-middle class neighbourhood in Karkhana, from the Gandhi Hospital after an autopsy at around 11 a.m., almost six hours after her demise on the city outskirts in Patancheru.
Through the day, political leaders led by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy offered floral tributes condolences at the residence of the MLA.
