PM Flags off Kashi Mahakal Express

Varanasi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi flagged off Kashi Mahakal Express (Varanasi-Indore) via video conferencing here today. The train will connect the three Jyotirling pilgrim centres of Varanasi, Ujjain and Omkareshwar.

The Prime Minister, who arrived in his parliamentary constituency this morning, is scheduled to inaugurate over 30 projects, including a 430-bed super speciality government hospital and a 74-bed psychiatry hospital at Benaras Hindu University, besides an exhibition titled ‘Kashi Ek, Roop Anek’.

Earlier he unveiled a 63-feet tall statue of Jana Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya and inaugurated a memorial centre in honour of the late leader. (ANI)