A democrat and young leftist, Zohran Mamdani, won New York City's mayoral election on Tuesday (local time), scripting history to become the first Indian-origin Muslim mayor of the city.

Mamdani will be sworn in on January 1. He will be the youngest person to hold the office in a century and will replace first-term Mayor Eric Adams, who dropped out of the race amid low poll numbers and a series of scandals.

Who is Zohran Mamdani?

Zohran Mamdani is the Ugandan-born son of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani, a Columbia University professor and scholar of colonialism.

Mamdani moved to New York at age 7, attended Bronx High School of Science and Bowdoin College in Maine, and tried his hand at multiple careers, including as a rap artist, working on his mother’s films, an

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