CHENNAI: Within the final two months, PM Narendra Modi has visited Tamil Nadu thrice, campaigning for BJP and its allies, and is scheduled to go to the state once more on April 15 and search votes for the NDA candidates at Nagercoil. In sharp distinction, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi has not campaigned even as soon as within the state to date.His absence has sparked a powerful buzz that each one is just not nicely within the Congress-DMK alliance. Ballot watchers distinction this with the earlier meeting election, when he kickstarted his marketing campaign with a three-day Tamil Nadu go to in Jan 2021.Congress officers within the state stated Rahul’s marketing campaign schedules are but to be firmed up, however as per the tentative plan, he’ll go to after the primary part of polls in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry.Rahul visited Puducherry solely on Monday, the penultimate day of campaigning. And, whilst he sought help for “Congress candidates and alliance candidates”, he studiously averted mentioning alliance associate DMK and its functionary MK Stalin.Stalin, too, was in Puducherry the identical day, however their marketing campaign schedules had been deliberate in a manner that they did not cross paths. Whereas Rahul campaigned within the morning, Stalin visited within the night.“Rahul didn’t even point out Stalin’s identify in his speech,” stated a DMK functionary. Nor did point out Stalin him. Political observers stated this could possibly be a fallout of the friction between the 2 events in the course of the seat-sharing talks.A DMK functionary stated there was no try from DMK’s aspect for a gathering between Rahul and Stalin. DMK organizational secretary, RS Bharathi, stated the 2 allies had deliberate their public assembly nicely upfront and could not alter it on the final minute to carry a joint assembly. Nonetheless, the 2 would marketing campaign collectively shortly, he stated.A senior Congress official stated Rahul has deliberate to go to TN after April 10.