A day before the third phase of polling on Tuesday, the Congress said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was suffering from "mythomania" and claimed that the BJP would bite the dust this election.

Briefing the media, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said Modi would not form the government after the 2024 general election. "People have cottoned on to their conspiracy to end reservation… And the people of India have decided to defeat them," she said.

Shrinate was asked about former Congress member Acharya Pramod Krishnam's claim that during a party meeting after the Supreme Court's Ayodhya verdict Rahul Gandhi had told his aides that when the Congress returns to power, it would form a super-power commission and overturn the Ram Mandir decision, the way his father Rajiv Gandhi had overturned the Shah Bano decision.

Shrinate replied: "I think it’s time that some of these people visit doctors. I think they are hallucinating or they are consuming articles that are prohibited. I really think this substance abuse is perhaps taking a lot of precedence in our polity today.

"I do believe he (Modi) should consult a good psychiatrist. I do believe that 'mythomania' is a disease that the Prime Minister of this country suffers from and I think it’s trickling down to either members of his party or some of the turncoats who you named."

She claimed that Modi would be held to account for his "10 years of misrule" by the new government, which would be voted to office on June 4.

Shrinate also launched a broadside at the BJP for the police action against some of her colleagues in the social media cell.

Over the past week, there have been reports from different parts of the country of Congress social media activists being picked up by the police on allegations of spreading fake news.

Billing the police action as cowardice on the part of the Modi government, she said: "This is a sign of panic in the BJP camp."

Stating that the Congress was providing legal assistance to the activists — most of them professionals who are working with the party out of conviction — Shrinate said the police on the other hand were dragging their feet on the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee complaint against doctored videos of Rahul.