American politician of Indian descent, Zohram Kwame Mamdani, is in the race to be the next NYC mayor. The 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani has defeated Andrew Cuomo to win the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. The son of postcolonial theorist Mahmood Mamdani and acclaimed filmmaker, Mira Nair, Zohran was trained in Astoria’s political trenches.
It was in 2015 when Zohran began his political career, and in 2017, he joined the Democratic Socialists of America. He defeated the former governor Andrew Cuomo and won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. He is the first Muslim, the first Asian, and the first mayor to be associated with the Democratic Socialists of America.