Kochi (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Ernakulam-Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express on Saturday in an online event from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

The Ernakulam Junction - KSR Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express (06652) left the station here at 8.41 am, though the scheduled time was 8 am, to the sound of drum beats.

The latest Vande Bharat train from Kerala, decked with flowers inside and out, carried Union Minister of State for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Tourism Suresh Gopi, children from various schools selected on the basis of a drawing competition, and officials from various departments.

Speaking to reporters onboard the train, Gopi said, "It is a revolution on rails. ROR. It should roar," he said.

The union minister further said that more trains can come to Kerala and the

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