#गौरवशाली_70_वर्ष आज ही के दिन 14 मार्च 1948 आज़ाद 🇮🇳 का पहला जलयान #Ship_Jalusa पवित्र वैदिक मंत्रों व पूजा अर्चना… https://t.co/2GhnbeJrAZ — Syed Athar Dehlavi सैयद अतहर देहलवी سید اطہر دہلوی (@maulanadehlavi) 1521029819000

NEW DELHI: Even as the Congress slammed the BJP over defence minister Rajnath Singh visiting France to receive the first Rafale fighter jet and performing ' Shastra Puja ' on it, a video shows former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru participating in puja when India's first ship ' Jal Usha ' was launched on March 14, 1948.Syed Athar Dehlavi, chairman of Anjuman Minhaj-e-Rasool, shared the video on Twitter , saying Nehru performed the puja with sacred vedic chants and prayers.In the video, the former PM can be seen participating in puja before launching the ship.On Tuesday, at a ceremony in Merignac (France) on Tuesday, Rajnath Singh formally took delivery of the first of the 36 long-awaited French-made aircraft acquired by the Indian Air Force. He performed puja on the new aircraft as he emblazoned it with an 'Om' tilak and laid flowers and a coconut, just before he took a sortie in the two-seater jet.Reacting to the development, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge called the event a "tamasha". "There is no need to do such 'tamasha' (drama). When we bought weapons-like the Bofors gun, no one went and brought them while showing off," Kharge said.Congress leader Rashid Alvi also said, "This is a government of dramatics. You are going to France and performing Puja, wasn't the Rafale jet coming to India? You are going to a foreign country and doing all this drama."The BJP reacted strongly to these remarks and its attack was led by party president Amit Shah , who asked the Congress to think about "what they should oppose and what not." Shah said that 'Shashtra Puja' is done on Vijayadashami which symbolises victory of good over evil.Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also slammed Kharge and accused the Congress of forgetting Indian traditions.