Just one day before the official launch of Vande Bharat Express from Bengal, West Bengal BJP President and MP (Balurghat) Sukanta Majumadar wrote a letter to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav requesting a stoppage at Bolpur Shantiniketan Station for the express.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit West Bengal on Friday to flag off Vande Bharat Express connecting Howrah to New Jalpaiguri at Howrah Railway Station and inaugurate the Joka-Taratala stretch of the Purple Line of Kolkata Metro.
PM Modi flagged off the country's sixth and the state's first Vande Bharat Express train which will now run between Maharashtra's Nagpur and Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur.
Stepping up the attack on the opposition parties that "resort to politics of shortcut", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that leaders of such political outfits are the "biggest enemies of every taxpayer".
The train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Nagpur on Sunday, December 11. The new Vande Bharat will be running from Nagpur to Bilaspur at a maximum permissible speed of 130 kms/hr and will be covering a distance of 412 kms in just 5 hours and 30 minutes.
The Hospital, whose foundational stone was also laid by the Prime Minister in July 2017, has been established under the Central sector scheme Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, read a statement from Prime Minister's Office.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Phase-I of Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg, covering a distance of 520 Kms and connecting Nagpur and Shirdi.