Ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had launched the ‘Jai Jawan Abhiyan' to provide justice to 1.5 lakh candidates who were dumped after selection for the armed forces. Gandhi's campaign had been launched on the eighteenth day of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in West Bengal. He promised these youth that
'The armed forces already have three lakh soldiers less. After 10 years, there will be only 10 lakh soldiers in India, out of which only three lakh will be regular soldiers. This will weaken our country. We will slip into slavery again'