PM Modi Flags Off Assam's 1st Vande Bharat Express
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off North East's first Vande Bharat Express from Guwahati to New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal on Monday. The prime minister symbolically waved a green flag on screen, to launch the train from Guwahati station where Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma were present. "Infrastructure is for all without any discrimination, reflecting true social justice and secularism", the prime minister said.
