Even as Telangana Government was gearing up for the official centenary celebrations of the establishment of Osmania University in Hyderabad, the State BJP chief K lakshman announced that he will make his best efforts to bring PM Narendra Modi to the celebrations.
The State Government recently decided to organise grand gala anniversary of the University and set up a high level committee for its preparations. Addressing the meeting of the Forum for Nationalist Alumni of Osmania University at the Tagore Auditorium lakshman said the celebrations should be organised in a manner befitting the past glory of the university.
He recalled that the former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao and several other top political leaders, doctors, engineers, legal luminaries and experts of different fields were the alumnus of the University.
He demanded that new courses should start and infrastructure should be improved to commemorate the occasion.
From the start till 1948 when the princely state of Hyderabad was merged into Indian union, Osamnia University had Urdu as the medium of instructions and even medical and engineering courses were taught in the Indian language. But after the end of Nizam’s rule Urdu was replaced with Telugu and the Urdu was removed even from the logo of the university and only English and Telugu language could find a place on it.
Recently the issue of the logo had come up when the Hyderabad member of parliament Asaduddin Owaisi wrote a letter to the Vice Chancellor Ramachandran to restore the old logo with Urdu script.
He spoke to the vice chancellor when the Dalit Minorities Students Union of OU submitted a memorandum to him drawing his attention to the historic old logo.
Asad Owaisi said that he will take up the issue with the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and deputy Chief Minister Kadia Srihari.