New York: New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, did not forget to flaunt his Indian roots during his first victory speech, although he did not mention India or Indians directly.

Flanked by his Indian-origin parents and wife Rama Duwaji on the stage, Mamdani quoted India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ address in his victory speech.

Mamdani invoked Nehru as he spoke about ushering in a new era in New York City politics.

“Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru: “A moment 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,” Mamdani said, recalling the words of Nehru who delivered his famous speech on the eve of India’s

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