Lucknow, Aug 26 - While Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi's hate speeches against Muslims are already a matter of record, there are fresh allegations that he also spoke against the Sikh community during the election campaign, officials said Wednesday.

The Congress candidate who lost against varun gandhi in the Pilibhit Lok Sabha election has in a complaint to the Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday said Gandhi had referred to Sikhs as 'Khalistanis' besides calling Muslims 'Pakistanis'.

Varun Gandhi's mother Maneka Gandhi, who is a former minister and BJP MP, is also a Sikh.

The 35-page complaint was given to the state's principal home secretary Fateh Bahadur on Tuesday. It cites a speech Varun Gandhi delivered at Mathia temple in Deshnagar locality of Pilibhit on March 6.

While his hate speeches on March 7 and 8 against Muslims are under police investigation, his alleged anti-Sikh utterances in Deshnagar went unreported until V.M. Singh, a former MLA and a known farmer leader, found the transcripts recently.

'The applicant seeks permission from the state to initiate criminal proceedings against Mr. Varun Feroze Gandhi for indulging and misusing religion to garner votes and also spitting venom and creating a divide between communities to reap electoral benefits', reads the complaint.

Singh said: 'The transcript of the speech delivered by Varun on March 6, 2009, in Pilibhit reveals that apart from trying to create a divide between Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims to secure votes in the election, he made personal attacks not only against me but also against the Sikh religion.