PM Modi flags off four new trains in Kerala, launches SVANidhi Credit Card

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the newly allotted three new Amrit Bharat Express trains and one passenger train service for Kerala, in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday (January 23, 2026). Mr. Modi flagged off the new services via video around 11 am at Putharikandam Maidanam in the State capital.

The Thiruvananthapuram-Tambaram Amrit Bharat Express (from Thiruvananthapuram Central station), the Nagercoil-Mangaluru Amrit Bharat Express (from Thiruvananthapuram Central station), the Thiruvananthapuram-Charlappalli Amrit Bharat Express (from Thiruvananthapuram North station) and the Thrissur-Guruvayur Passenger Train (from Thrissur station) departed for their destinations from the respective stations soon after the ceremony.

The Prime Minister landed at the Thiruvananthapuram airport around 10.24 a.m. Kerala Governor Rajendra Arlekar, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and others received the Prime Minister at the airport, from where he was taken to the roadshow point at Overbridge. Waving BJP flags, placards and saffron festoons, people in large numbers gathered on either side of the road from the airport premises to Overbridge to greet the Prime Minister.