The Congress has slammed the BJP over the death of seven children in a government school building collapse in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar, with Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi demanding a probe and strict punishment for the culprits.
A regular morning that saw students assembling for prayers quickly turned into tragedy on Friday (July 25, 2025) when a portion of their government school building collapsed, killing seven children and injuring 27, some of them critically.
The youngest of those who died was only six years old. Minutes into the morning at the Piplodi Government School in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district, a part of the middle school building housing Classes 6 and 7 gave way, burying several children.
In a post in Hindi on X, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said “the death of many innocent children due to the collapse of the roof of a government school in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, is a very painful and shameful incident.”
“The government, which cannot repair the roofs of the schools of our children, despite complaints, for the future of the country, shows big dreams of ‘Viksit Bharat’,” he said.
