HYDERABAD: In a major faux pas the Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday introduced a Bill in the state Assembly on the proposed Urdu university in Kurnool naming it after a famous Pakistani scholar.Human resources development minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao introduced the Moulvi Abdul Haq Urdu University Bill, 2016 seeking that the House adopt it. Moulvi Abdul Haq is a Pakistani scholar known as Baba-e-Urdu or father of Urdu for his contribution to the development of the language in the Indian sub-continent. Though the Moulvi was born in British India and played a key role in the development of the syllabus of Osmania University in Hyderabad about a century ago, he migrated to Pakistan soon after partition.Enquiries revealed that the AP government had decided to name the proposed Urdu university after noted educationist and philanthropist Dr Abdul Haq, but inadvertently named it after Moulvi Abdul Haq due to clerical error. Incidentally, the Unani medical college and hospital in Kurnool city is named after Dr Abdul Haq, who had worked for the uplift of Muslims in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. Dr Haq had established at least half a dozen educational institutions of repute in AP, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and is known as the Sir Syed of South.The Moulvi Abdul Haq Urdu University Bill, 2016 is currently under consideration of the AP state assembly. It is likely to be adopted later in the day.“Dr Abdul Haq and Moulvi Abdul Haq are two different personalities. The government has promised to name the Urdu university after Dr Haq. The error should be rectified through an amendment,” says Dr Javed Rasheed, grandson of Dr Abdul Haq.The Urdu university will come up on 125 acres at Orvakallu near Kurnool city. Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for the university in November last year. The government had already allotted Rs 20 crore for the first phase construction of the university complex. It is scheduled to begin its academic year from June.“Senior officials dealing with the draft Bill should have cross checked the facts before sending it to the state assembly for introduction. This is nothing but sheer negligence. I do not know how the error had crept in. In fact, a group of people in Kurnool district had brought out a booklet on Dr Abdul Haq soon after the chief minister laid the foundation stone for the university,” points out social activist and Muslim historian Syed Naseer Ahmad.