Error: an empty namespace may not be set during creation - kubernetes

Question

I have a namespace already available in a k8s cluster. However, it is empty. Next, I am trying to create k8s configmap, deployment, service, and secrets in it using k8s provider terraform.
However, it is giving error as below for every object.
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:06 PM | Checking state lock
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:06 PM | $ terraform apply -input=false -no-color tfplan
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:06 PM | [OUTPUT]
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:07 PM | Acquiring state lock. This may take a few moments...
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:09 PM | module.service.kubernetes_service.test_nginx: Creating...
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:09 PM | module.configmap.kubernetes_config_map.nginx_translations_resourcebundle: Creating...
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:09 PM | module.configmap.kubernetes_config_map.nginx_config: Creating...
stdout | 11/23/2022, 5:31:10 PM | module.deployment.kubernetes_deployment.test_nginx: Creating...
stderr | 11/23/2022, 5:31:10 PM |
stderr | 11/23/2022, 5:31:10 PM | Error: an empty namespace may not be set during creation
on configmap/configmap.tf line 7, in resource "kubernetes_config_map" "config":
7: resource "kubernetes_config_map" "nginx_ext_config" {
This is the tf file for configmap.
locals {
directory_external_config = "./configmap/config"
}
resource "kubernetes_config_map" "config" {
metadata {
name = "test-nginx"
namespace = var.TEST_NAMESPACE
}
data = {
for f in fileset(local.directory_external_config, "*") :
f => file(join("/", [local.directory_external_config, f]))
}
}
Here, I am passing the namespace from a terraform variable (namespace = var.TEST_NAMESPACE).
Please guide me on what I am missing.