Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated Bihar's second Vande Bharat Express train between Patna & Howrah via video conference along with eight others. The special train will cover 532 Km distance between the two capital cities of Bihar and West Bengal in 6 hours 35 minutes. The eight-coach train will ply six days in week barring Wednesday. The inaugural function was organised at Patna junction in which Union Ministers Nityanand Rai, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, former Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ram Kripal Yadav, and other dignitaries were present.

In Bihar, people have expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second Vande Bharat Express in Bihar. Kanchan Kumari resident from Patna said the new train will save the time.