Chennai: Over the past two months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Tamil Nadu thrice, campaigning for the BJP and its allies, and is scheduled to visit the state again on April 15 and seek votes for NDA candidates in Nagercoil. On the contrary, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi Till now he has not campaigned even once in the state.Due to his absence, there is a strong discussion that all is not well in the Congress-DMK alliance. Election watchers compare this with the last assembly elections, when he started his campaign with a three-day visit to Tamil Nadu in January 2021.Congress officials in the state said Rahul’s campaign schedule has not been decided yet, but as per the tentative plan, he will visit Assam, Kerala and Puducherry after the first phase of voting.Rahul visited Puducherry on Monday, the last day of the election campaign. And, even when he sought support for “Congress candidates and alliance candidates”, he carefully avoided mentioning alliance partner DMK and its incumbent MK Stalin.Stalin was also in Puducherry on the same day, but their campaign schedules were planned in such a way that they did not clash with each other. While Rahul campaigned in the morning, Stalin visited in the evening.A DMK functionary said, “Rahul did not even mention Stalin’s name in his speech. Nor did Stalin mention them. Political observers said this could be a result of friction between the two parties during seat-sharing talks.A DMK functionary said that no effort was made by the DMK for a meeting between Rahul and Stalin. DMK’s organizational secretary, RS Bharathi, said the two allies had already planned their public meeting and it could not be changed at the last minute to hold a joint meeting. However, he said that the two will be promoting together soon.A senior Congress functionary said Rahul planned to visit Tamil Nadu after April 10.