Prime Minister Narendra Modi might represent Varanasi in parliament, but he is mostly missing from the constituency and is not in touch with the locals, Ajai Rai, the Congress candidate and its state unit chief in Uttar Pradesh, told NDTV today.
"Modi-ji can count how many times he has come to Benaras. We were born here and will live here," he said, levelling the outsider tag at the Prime Minister, who contested from outside his home state, Gujarat, in 2014.