At least two senior Congress leaders have expressed reservations about Rahul's remark.
Anand Sharma and Kapil Sibal have reacted sharply to Rahul's "north-south" statement and wondered the context in which the former Congress chief made it.
"For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues not just superficially but they like to go into detail about issues," Rahul Gandhi had said on Tuesday at an event to mark the conclusion of 'Aishwarya Kerala Yatra' in poll-bound Kerala.