Two lawyers filed complaints of sedition against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Allahabad and Varanasi on Wednesday while the party’s Assam unit lodged an FIR against the state BJP over its smear campaign against the leader.

The complaint filed in an Allahabad district court alleged that Gandhi took an anti-national stand by supporting protesting JNU students and will be taken up on March 1. In Varanasi, a lawyer filed an application to register a complaint against Gandhi, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja and Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi under Sections 505 (1) B, 511, 124A and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. The court fixed March 12 as the next date of hearing.