com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Lorg/apache/cordova/Config

Question

I have two modules('app' and 'mlib') in my project and app module depends on mlib module.

In the mlib module I am using cordova.jar file as a library.

Now in order to execute any method of mlib module its asking me to add cordova.jar file again. so I added same jar file in my app module also. If I am removing jar file from app module, I am getting error

Cannot access org.cordova.CordovaPlugin

So currently I have cordova.jar file present in both mlib and app module.

Now when I am trying to run the application, I am getting error

com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Lorg/apache/cordova/Config

I have also added below dexOptions in my app level build.gradle file but no luck.

dexOptions {
        incremental false
        preDexLibraries = false
        jumboMode = false
        javaMaxHeapSize "2048M"
    }

build.gradle file of mlib module:

Error that I am getting while building: