Jaipur, June 23 -- Congress leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday urged the state government to order "immediate fire safety and structural audits of coaching institutes" in the city following the Lucknow fire incident in which 15 students loss their lives.

In a post on X, Gehlot said he had written a letter to Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, "alerting him that many coaching institutes in Jaipur are also operating in unsafe buildings," and warned that a similar tragedy could occur here if corrective steps are not taken.

He also demanded that coaching institutes be allowed to shift to the Pratap Nagar coaching hub, "but the BJP government halted it and began the process of handing over this campus to IIT Jo...