Vande Bharat Trains Hit Century As PM Modi Flags Off 10 More, South India Gets Three Including One From Kharge's Kalaburagi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off 10 new Vande Bharat trains today (12 March), completing a century of these semi-high speed premium trains.

South India got three of these new Vande Bharat trains running between Kalaburagi–Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam and Mysuru-Dr MGR Central (Chennai). 

Notably, Kalaburagi is the stronghold of the Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge. He has represented the constituency two times in Lok Sabha and this time, his son-in-law can be the Congress candidate from here.

The other Vande Bharat trains will run between Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central, Patna- Lucknow, New Jalpaiguri-Patna, Puri-Visakhapatnam, Lucknow - Dehradun, Ranchi-Varanasi, Khajuraho- Delhi (Nizamuddin).

The PM also flagged off the extension of four Vande Bharat trains. Ahmedabad-Jamnagar Vande Bharat is being extended till Dwarka and Ajmer- Delhi Sarai Rohilla Vande Bharat is being extended till Chandigarh.

Similarly, Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat is being extended till Prayagraj and Thiruvananthapuram- Kasargod Vande Bharat is being extended till Mangaluru.

Vande Bharat Network now touches 250 districts of the country. "In deference to people’s wishes, routes of Vande Bharat are being extended," press release said.