Ansari said, ‘The public of Varanasi is with me. Let the elections take place and we will see.’ Ansari has contested from Varanasi on a BSP ticket in 2009 elections against BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi. He gave a tough fight to Joshi and lost by 17,087 votes. Ansari is currently lodged in Agra jail for the murder of a BJP MLA. On Tuesday, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal announced that he, too, will contest against Modi from Varanasi and had questioned the latter’s claims of development in Gujarat.