Jaipur, Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Thursday said the mandate in the Lok Sabha elections was against the policies of the BJP government at the Centre.

The former Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan also alleged that during the elections, the BJP government acted in a vindictive manner, suppressing the voice of the opposition, putting elected Chief Ministers in jail and confiscating the bank accounts of the Congress party.

"I think this mandate in the elections is against the policies of the BJP at the Centre...It is a mandate against the politics of the BJP in the last 10 years," he told reporters in Tonk.

Pilot said the issues raised by the opposition were appreciated by the people and as a result, the Congress got full support in the recently concluded elections.

He said that Congress could not form the government after the assembly elections but in the Lok Sabha elections, the party paid attention to everything from the selection of candidates to the issues raised in the campaign.

On the question of the role of youth in elections, he said that they should be given more tickets, whether it is Lok Sabha or Assembly elections.

He said, "I have always advocated in the Congress Party that youth should be given opportunities by recognizing their talent."

On the Agneepath military recruitment scheme, Pilot said that the Congress party had given a clear commitment that if the party came to power, the scheme would be scrapped.

In Rajasthan, the Congress won eight of the 25 Lok Sabha seats and its India Bloc allies won a total of three seats, while the ruling BJP secured 14 seats.

Congress could not win a single seat in the 2014 and 2019 elections. The party had lost the assembly elections to BJP in December last year.