Newspunjab
5 Nov 2025
Indian-American Zohran Mamdani has become New York’s first Indian-American Muslim mayor. The 34-year-old Mamdani defeated former city governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent. Zohran Mamdani moved to New York City at the age of seven. His father, Mahmud Mamdani, is a renowned Ugandan writer and Marxist scholar of Indian origin.
