Exactly! just for the sake of tiny tehsils and short route within Madhya Pradesh they want to run the train. Even Railways know this route is flop so they run goods train over passenger train that's why they selected Jhansi Kanpur Lucknow/Allahabad one of the biggest busy routes of India. And they are criticising not to run the train via shortest route.
I think they are not aware that Indore-Kanpur, Indore-Lucknow, Jhansi-Lucknow, Kanpur-Varanasi, Bhopal-Lucknow, Bhopal-Kanpur would be the biggest hites.
Everyone know Katni Bina Sagar can...
more... never even fill a premium coach for Indore or Varanasi