As a mark of tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on his 91st birthday, Indian Railways is all set to launch a train connecting his ancestral village Bateshwar to Agra district on December 25.
This will be a passenger train. However, any more details about the train, dates or frequency aren’t known yet.
The Additional Division Railway Manager, Sheelendra Pratap Singh, said that the new train is a gift from Indian Railways to the former prime minister.
According to the report, locals say, after Vajpayee was arrested in August 1942 for 23 days during the Quit India Moment, he never quite forgot the difficulty he had to face to reach his village. Since then, he always wanted to connect the city with the village by the way of a train.
