A proposal to set up an Urdu Bhavan in Mumbai has become a battleground between two factions of the Muslim community. A report in this paper yesterday stated how an MLA has taken on a Kurla non-profit over where this Bhavan should be located.

The battle has been simmering for a while, but sparked to life again after founders of a non-profit, Jai Ho Foundation, said that they had called the MLA's bluff. They accused the MLA, Waris Pathan, of fooling people by saying that he has a proposal of an Urdu Bhavan in Byculla and is now awaiting government sanctions and permissions to go ahead with the same. The Jai Ho Foundation claimed that Pathan was hoodwinking people by his claims. The non-profit claimed that the people will benefit with an Urdu Bhavan at Kalina university campus, and an academic environment will be conducive to the propagation, and promotion of the Urdu language.