Announcement is sudden but not surprising. Extension of Latur Exp upto NED was strongly opposed by LUR citizens. And as you know that this is election time, who will take the risk. So new train was introduced. Anyways..but good for LUR-NED people only.
I have another suggestion..... Instead of running PUNE-NED weekly night train, a daily day-time running express train should be introduced between PUNE-NED. This will not only reduce the load on LUR-CSTM express but also prove useful for NED-PBN-LUR people.