Lagatar24 Desk
Hyderabad, April 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Secunderabad-Tirupati Vande Bharat Express train in Telangana on Saturday. The service was inaugurated by PM Modi, who had just arrived in the city, at Hyderabad’s Secunderabad Railway station.
At the train station, he got aboard the standing train and talked to the schoolchildren.
The railway would benefit pilgrims in particular by cutting the distance between Secunderabad in Telangana and Tirupati in nearby Andhra Pradesh by roughly three and a half hours.
“Today I have flagged off the Secunderabad-Tirupati Vande Bharat Express. It will connect faith, modernity, technology and tourism,” said PM Modi in Telangana.
The Vande Bharat train service, the first of its kind to link the two Telugu-speaking states, began running between Secunderabad and the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on January 15.
Those in attendance were the governor of Telangana, Tamilisai Soundararajan, the minister of railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and the union minister for culture and tourism, G Kishan Reddy.
