The Union government has approved a new Vande Bharat train connecting Ernakulam to Bengaluru via Thrissur and Palakkad. BJP Kerala state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar announced the development on Wednesday and expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a Facebook post. Chandrasekhar said the train service is expected to begin by mid-November. He highlighted Bengaluru as a city where a large number of Keralites, especially those in the IT sector, are employed. “Thank You, Modi! Gratitude to the Central Government for sanctioning a Vande Bharat train from Ernakulam to Bengaluru via Thrissur and Palakkad,” he wrote.
