MUMBAI, May 15 -- On Thursday morning, chief minister Fadnavis drove a Royal Enfield Bullet from his official residence Varsha to Vidhan Bhavan with cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar riding pillion; his deputies Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar travelled in electric vehicles (EVs), while a few other ministers chose to walk to Mantralaya for the cabinet meeting. These were among some of the measures adopted by government officials in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent push for austerity amid the West Asia crisis. As the CM and ministers settled down for the cabinet meeting on Thursday, Fadnavis is believed to have requested all his ministers to use public transport "at least once a week". Opposition leaders, however, called the entire act of politicians a staged political spectacle, questioning if the self-discipline would sustain for an entire year as the prime minister had requested.P4...