India trolled for coconut breaking ritual on Rafale fighter jet

Dunya News

Rajnath Singh performed a puja of Rafale jet by placing lemons under its wheels and coconut on top.

FRANCE (Dunya News) - After a 15-year procurement process, India got its first Rafale jet at a ceremony in France but it got subjected to troll all over the Internet after India performed lemons and coconut breaking ritual to protect the fighter aircraft. 

Defence Indian Minister Rajnath Singh performed a puja of a Rafale jet by placing lemons under its wheels and coconut on the top, the pictures of which are now doing rounds on social media.

#RafalePujaPolitics took over the Twitter in no time as it attracted a lot of troll from the netizens.

One of the user called it the forceful conversion of Rafale from Christianity to Hinduism.

Another Twitterati expressed that India being the secular country is performing only Hindu rituals.

A user asserted that French-made fighter jets are equipped with cutting edge technology and India is still using nimboos to ward off evil spirits and coconuts to make it holy.

One of the netizens joked about adding lemon prices in next budget for Holy purposes.

A user named Imran Khan expressed that Indian government bought Rafale to protect the country while buying lemons to protect the Rafale.

A Pakistani Twitterati said that Pakistan will squeeze lemon and surprise India again with fantastic lemon juice.

He also expressed that India are performing such customs to save them from Pakistan unlike before.

India signed a 36-jet deal with France in September 2016 and it cost the Indian government INR 59,000 crore.