Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani waves next to his mother Mira Nair onstage after winning the 2025 New York City Mayoral race, at an election night rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., on November 4, 2025.
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Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday (November 4, 2025) made history by becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor-elect, and its youngest since 1917, topping off a stunning grassroots campaign led by the message of affordability and upending a political class dominated by wealthy donors.In his victory speech before a jubilant crowd in Brooklyn, the 34-year-old former state assemblyman declared, “Tonight, New York has stepped from the old into the new.” Quoting from Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech, Mr. Mamdani said, “Standing before you, I remember the words of Jawaharlal Nehru. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” Published - November 05, 2025 08:18 am IST
