chill!!
his main point was to start the action from people's representatives, it would have made the move more palatable and easier for them to digest when the representatives and their entourage are also made to pay for travel.
and besides, there was no harm in it. His was a single example, but there are many such examples of potential revenue loss in IR like rampanant ticketless traveling in certain sections, giving unnecessary halts to trains (the main cost of operating train is due to the high energy required in its acceleration, once...
more... in motion it runs with very less energy requirement), myriad quotas which result in people seeing WL tickets and choosing some other form of transport despite there being seats available etc. One doesn't complain to Municipality about less water in home when the pipes in his household are having massive leaks in it!