Maharashtra CM Chavan skipped the event as he feared BJP supporters will jeer him the way they did at Solapur last time.
Chavan was booed at a public meeting in Solapaur a few days back where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had arrived to inaugurate a power transmission line.
Even Haryana Chief Minister B S Hooda had to face a hostile crowd when Modi was in Haryana to lay the foundation stone for a project.
Hooda was booed by the crowd who had ears only for their Prime Minister. While Hooda spoke from the dais at a stone- laying ceremony of a highway project at Kaithal on Tuesday, the crowd chanted Modi's name and jeered the Chief Minister.
To avoid a repeat of similar embarrassment, Chavan decided to boycott the event all together.
The Prime Minister was accompanied by Governor K Sankaranarayanan and Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal.
