At the start of this year, assemblyman Zohran Mamdani , who joined the New York City mayoral race in 2024, was polling at 1%. Few New Yorkers had heard of him. And, as NYT put it, “his own political team put the odds of winning at 3%”. But by June, everything had changed. In the Democratic primary for NYC mayor, Mamdani stunned former governor, Andrew M Cuomo — a hardened veteran — and looked all set to become the next mayor of NYC. When the mayoral polls were held last Tuesday, more than two million turned out to vote — almost double the number of voters four years ago — and Mamdani bagged more than a million votes, over 50%.

Before He Made Headlines Mamdani went to Bronx High School of Science (Class of 2010), where he co-founded the school’s cricket team and edited the

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