A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow district has directed that a complaint case be registered against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remark that he and his party are fighting the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and “the Indian state itself”, Live Law reported on Friday.

A complaint case is a formal allegation made to a court that an offence has been committed.

The directive was issued by a court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate on a complaint filed by an advocate.

The complainant alleged that Gandhi’s statement, made during the inauguration of the new Congress headquarters in New Delhi in January, was “seditious and anti-national”.

The matter will now be heard on October 1, when the statement of the complainant will be recorded, Live Law reported.

At the January event, Gandhi had said that the Congress was not engaged in a fair fight with the ruling party.

“If you believe we are fighting against a political organisation called BJP and RSS, they have captured almost every institution in our country,” he had said at the time. “We are now fighting not just the BJP and RSS, but the Indian state itself.”

The RSS is the parent organisation of the BJP.

The complaint also names Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and other party leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh, as they were present at the event.

The complaint had alleged that Gandhi’s use of the phrase “Indian state” implied that he was “fighting against the Republic of India”.

He added that the “Indian state” includes the people, constitutional institutions, Parliament, the executive, legislature and judiciary, and alleged that Gandhi’s statement was therefore “an attack on the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India”.

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