NEW DELHI: A day after Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda was booed by BJP workers in the presence of PM Narendra Modi at a stone-laying ceremony at Kaithal, the Congress leadership has asked party chief ministers to draw ‘protocol lakshman rekha’ whenever Modi visits their states. A Congress leader said the decision was taken after the leadership and some CMs felt “Modi is stage-managing humiliation of Congress chief ministers during their joint appearances”.Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan announced on Wednesday evening that he will not attend an event at Nagpur scheduled for Thursday. “What happened at the public function in Haryana was condemnable. Congress and NCP have decided jointly that we will not attend the PM’s functions,” Chavan told reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday night.A senior AICC functionary called up Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, leader of JMM who heads the state’s coalition government in which Congress is a partner, and asked him to be “extremely careful” if he chooses to deal with Modi during his scheduled trip.“We are convinced that BJP workers’ attempt to humiliate Hoodaji was a cheap and orchestrated show stage-managed by Modi. There is a pattern to this. Modi had tried to bully J&K CM Omar Abdullah when they jointly attended a function recently. He tried the same thing with Prithviraj Chavan at another function. This shows Modi is trying to show chief ministers from Congress and other non-NDA parties, especially in the election-bound states, in poor light,” said an AICC general-secretary who is in-charge of a couple of Congress-rules states.“This is not expected from a prime minister. We will not accept it and our chief ministers, from now on, will strictly limit their engagements with Modi to the bare protocol requirements,” the person added.“This means our chief ministers will formally receive Modi at the airport whenever he visits their states. They will also join the prime minister at official functions. That’s all. Our chief ministers will not attend any public meetings along with the PM, which are usually organised by the central government but where local BJP units mobilise the crowds,” said a Congress sourceAfter BJP workers booed Hooda on Tuesday, he had vowed never to share a public platform with Modi anymore. Haryana, along with Maharashtra and Jharkhand, are due for elections by October while J&K will go to polls early next year.