Kolkata, Jan. 14 -- West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday hailed the upcoming launch of India's first Vande Bharat sleeper train, which is scheduled to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the coming days.

It will connect two states, West Bengal and Assam.

Reacting to the upcoming launch, the state governor praised PM Modi for contributing to the development of West Bengal.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been contributing greatly to the development of Bengal. This is one addition to that. It's one point in a sequence of contributions which he has made to benefit the people of Bengal," Bose told ANI.

Earlier on January 1, Union Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, and Electronics & Information Tec...