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Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani, New York’s first South Asian and Muslim mayor, takes oath, pledges an agenda of affordability, safety, and unity, thanking family from “Kampala to Delhi.”

Zohran Mamdani Becomes New York City’s 112th Mayor

Zohran Mamdani: NYC's First South Asian Mayor

Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani, New York&rsquo;s first South Asian and Muslim mayor, takes oath, pledges an agenda of affordability, safety, and unity, thanking family from &ldquo;Kampala to Delhi.&rdquo;

Indian-origin politician Zohran Mamdani vowed to govern &ldquo;expansively and audaciously&rdquo; and deliver an agenda of affordability for New Yorkers as he thanked his family from &ldquo;Kampala to Delhi&rdquo; after being sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
Mamdani was administered the oath of office by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont at a ceremonial inauguration outside City Hall on Thursday, the seat of New York City government, on New Year&rsquo;s day.
He was formally sworn-in as New York City&rsquo;s 112th Mayor by New York Attorney General Letitia James at a private ceremony held at the turn of the new year on December 31 in an old subway station here.
He became the first South Asian and Muslim elected to helm the largest city in the US.
In his nearly 25 minute speech to New Yorkers after taking the oath of office Thursday, Mamdani said that &ldquo;beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.&rdquo;
He vowed that under his administration, City Hall will &ldquo;deliver an agenda of safety, affordability, and abundance, where government looks and lives like the people it represents, never flinches in the fight against corporate greed, and refuses to cower before challenges that others have deemed too complicated.&rdquo;
Indian-descent Mamdani is the son of renowned filmmaker Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani. He was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda and moved to New York City with his family when he was 7. Mamdani became a naturalized US citizen only recently in 2018.
Mamdani thanked his parents, who were present for the swearing-in ceremony, as well as his wife Rama Duwaji for their support. He also expressed gratitude to his family from Uganda to India.
&ldquo;Thank you to my parents, Mama and Baba, for raising me, for teaching me how to be in this world, and for having brought me to this city. Thank you to my family, from Kampala to Delhi. And thank you to my wife, Rama, for being my best friend, and for always showing me the beauty in everyday things,&rdquo; he said.
Thousands of Mamdani&rsquo;s supporters, from youth to the elderly, braved freezing temperatures on January 1 and stood for hours outside and near City Hall, cheering him and celebrating his victory and inauguration at a block party organized on the occasion. They said the New Year was ushering in an era of hope and promise as the new Mamdani administration begins its term in the city.
The supporters wore merchandise such as pins, hats and T-shirts emblazoned with Mamdani&rsquo;s name and images.
Mamdani also sounded a note of unity as he addressed the eight and a half million New Yorkers, saying together, they will tell a new story of the city.
"This will not be a tale of one city, governed only by the one percent. Nor will it be a tale of two cities, the rich versus the poor. It will be a tale of eight and a half million cities, each of them a New Yorker with hopes and fears, each a universe, each of them woven together."
"The authors of this story will speak Pashto and Mandarin, Yiddish and Creole. They will pray in mosques, at shul, at church, at Gurdwaras and Mandirs and temples. And many will not pray at all.&rdquo;
"Few of these eight and a half million will fit into neat and easy boxes. Some will be voters from Hillside Avenue or Fordham Road who supported President Trump a year before they voted for me, tired of being failed by their party&rsquo;s establishment," Mamdani said.
"The majority will not use the language that we often expect from those who wield influence. I welcome the change. For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,&rdquo; he said.
This was the only reference to Trump that he made in his entire speech.
Mamdani had registered a decisive and historic win at the polls in November as he defeated Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and political heavyweight former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent candidate and received US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s endorsement only on the eve of the election.
In a fiery victory speech, Mamdani had challenged Trump on immigration, heralded the toppling of "political dynasty&rdquo; and said his election symbolises &ldquo;hope&rdquo; over tyranny and "big money&rdquo; as he cited former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to assert that the city has stepped out from the &ldquo;old into the new.&rdquo;
Mamdani had invoked Nehru as he spoke about ushering in a new era in New York City politics.
&ldquo;Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru: &ldquo;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&rdquo;.&rdquo;
"Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new. So let us speak now, with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood, about what this new age will deliver, and for whom,&rdquo; he had said.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent a note to activist Umar Khalid, emphasizing resilience against bitterness, while US lawmakers urge India to grant Khalid bail and ensure a fair, timely trial.

NYC Mayor's Heartfelt Note to Activist Umar Khalid

NYC Mayor's Note to Umar Khalid on Overcoming Bitterness

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent a note to activist Umar Khalid, emphasizing resilience against bitterness, while US lawmakers urge India to grant Khalid bail and ensure a fair, timely trial.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has written a note for activist Umar Khalid, recalling his words on &ldquo;bitterness&rdquo; and the importance of not letting it consume one's self.
The note was posted on X by Khalid&rsquo;s partner Banojyotsna Lahiri. &ldquo;When prisons try to isolate, words travel. Zohran Mamdani writes to Umar Khalid,&rdquo; the caption accompanying the note said.
&ldquo;Dear Umar, I think of your words on bitterness often, and the importance of not letting it consume one's self. It was a pleasure to meet your parents. We are all thinking of you,&rdquo; the handwritten note signed by Mamdani said.
&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="und" dir="ltr"&gt;Zohran Mamdani writes to Umar Khalid. &lt;br&gt;December 2025. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeUmarKhalid?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#FreeUmarKhalid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://t.co/QTYe06cRp5"&gt;pic.twitter.com/QTYe06cRp5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; banojyotsna ... (@banojyotsna) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/banojyotsna/status/2006687046627451068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;January 1, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
Khalid and few others have been booked under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for allegedly being the "masterminds" of the February 2020 Delhi riots, which left 53 people dead and more than 700 injured.
Meanwhile, a group of US lawmakers has written to Indian Ambassador to the US Vinay Kwatra urging that Khalid be granted bail and a &ldquo;fair, timely trial in accordance with international law.&rdquo; US Representatives Jim McGovern and Jamie Raskin are among eight lawmakers who wrote to Kwatra expressing &ldquo;our continued concern regarding the prolonged pre-trial detention of individuals charged in connection with the February 2020 violence in Delhi,&rdquo; including Khalid.
&ldquo;The US and India share a long standing strategic partnership that has historically been rooted in democratic values, constitutional governance and strong people-to-people ties,&rdquo; the letter said adding that as the world's largest democracies, both nations have an interest in protecting and upholding freedom, the rule of law, human rights and pluralism.
&ldquo;It is in this spirit&rdquo; that the lawmakers said they are raising their concerns regarding Khalid&rsquo;s detention.
The lawmakers claimed that human rights organisations, legal experts and global media have raised questions about the fairness of the investigation and legal process related to Khalid&rsquo;s detention.
He "has been detained without bail for five years for charges levied under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, which independent human rights experts have warned may contravene international standards of equality before the law, due process and proportionality.&rdquo;
The US Representatives further added that they understand that these matters are presently under consideration before the Supreme Court of India and welcomed the news that Khalid received temporary bail to attend his sister's wedding.
They urged that Khalid be granted bail and released for the duration of the court's proceedings. &ldquo;With respect for India's democratic institutions and its role as a key partner of the US, we request that your Government share the steps being taken to ensure that the judicial proceedings against Khalid and those of his co-accused who remain in detention comport with international standards,&rdquo; the lawmakers said.

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York’s first Muslim mayor, promising an ambitious left-wing agenda while preparing for political clashes with US President Donald Trump.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani pledges left-wing success after taking office

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York&rsquo;s first Muslim mayor, promising an ambitious left-wing agenda while preparing for political clashes with US President Donald Trump.

Zohran Mamdani promised Thursday to show left-wing politics can succeed as he took over as New York mayor for a term sure to see him cross swords with US President Donald Trump.
Thousands of people gathered in freezing conditions in the United States' largest city to celebrate the 34-year-old Democrat's inauguration after his impressive political rise from relative anonymity just a year ago.
"They want to know if the left can govern. They want to know if the struggles that afflict them can be solved," Mamdani said outside City Hall.
"We will do something that New Yorkers do better than anyone else: we will set an example for the world."
In the 24-minute speech, he added: "Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously."
Mamdani, New York's first Muslim mayor, emphasized the cost of living issues that were central to his mayoral campaign, pledging to help those "betrayed by the established order."
Left-wing allies Senator Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also spoke in front of some 4,000 ticketed guests.
"Thank you for giving us, from coast to coast, the hope and the vision that we can create government that works for all, not just the wealthy and the few," said Sanders, a former presidential hopeful.
At one point during his speech, the crowd broke into chants of "tax the rich." Mamdani wants to raise taxes on New York's wealthiest residents.
Thousands of people also thronged downtown Manhattan, many wearing yellow and blue beanies emblazoned with "Zohran," to watch the ceremony on large screens.
"This is the first time that either of us in our entire lives has felt some kind of political hope at all," 31-year-old Jacob Byerly, a scientist, told AFP alongside his wife Auburn.
 - Ambitious agenda -
Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, comes to power at a time when Trump has pushed a hard-right agenda.
But it remains to be seen if Mamdani can deliver on his ambitious program, which envisions rent freezes, universal childcare and free public buses.
How Trump behaves could be decisive.
The Republican, himself a New Yorker, has repeatedly criticized Mamdani, but the pair held surprisingly cordial talks at the White House in November.
One flashpoint might be immigration raids as Trump wages an expanding crackdown on migrants across the United States.
Mamdani has vowed to protect immigrant communities.
Before the November vote, the president also threatened to slash federal funding for New York if it picked Mamdani, whom he called a "communist lunatic."
The mayor has said he believes Trump is a fascist.
Mamdani mentioned Trump only once in his speech Thursday while reflecting on the city's diversity, citing supporters of the president who also backed him in the mayoral vote.
 - Symbolic inauguration -
The inauguration was jam-packed with symbolism.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who successfully prosecuted Trump for fraud, performed a private midnight swearing-in at an abandoned subway station.
Mamdani's office said the understated venue beneath City Hall reflected his commitment to working people.
And in a first for the city, he used Korans to be sworn in as mayor.
Born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin, Mamdani moved to New York at age seven and enjoyed an elite upbringing with only a relatively brief stint in politics.
Compensating for his inexperience, he is surrounding himself with seasoned aides recruited from past mayoral administrations and former US president Joe Biden's government.
Mamdani has also opened dialogue with business leaders, some of whom predicted a massive exodus of wealthy New Yorkers if he won. Real estate leaders have debunked those claims.
As a defender of Palestinian rights, he will have to reassure the city's Jewish community -- the largest in the US -- of his inclusive leadership.
A small group of people holding Israeli flags appeared to protest Mamdani Thursday by blowing air horns during his speech.

Left-wing Democrat Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York mayor at the start of 2026, vowing cost-of-living reforms as his tenure is set to test ties with President Donald Trump.

Zohran Mamdani Inaugurated as First Muslim NYC Mayor

Zohran Mamdani: NYC's First Muslim Mayor Inauguration

Left-wing Democrat Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York mayor at the start of 2026, vowing cost-of-living reforms as his tenure is set to test ties with President Donald Trump.

Zohran Mamdani, the young upstart of the US left, was sworn in Thursday to take over as New York mayor for a term sure to see him cross swords with President Donald Trump.
After the clocks struck midnight, bringing in 2026, Mamdani took his oath of office at an abandoned subway stop to begin managing the United States' largest city. He is New York's first Muslim mayor.
His office said the understated venue beneath City Hall reflected his commitment to working people, after the 34-year-old Democrat campaigned on promises to address the soaring cost of living.
"This is truly the honor and the privilege of a lifetime," Mamdani told reporters after taking his oath.
But it remains to be seen if Mamdani -- virtually unknown a year ago -- can deliver on his ambitious agenda, which envisions rent freezes, universal childcare and free public buses.
Once an election is over, "symbolism only goes so far with voters. Results begin to matter a whole lot more," New York University lecturer John Kane said.
How Trump behaves could be a decisive factor.
The Republican, himself a New Yorker, has repeatedly criticized Mamdani, but the pair held surprisingly cordial talks at the White House in November.
Lincoln Mitchell, a political analyst and professor at Columbia University, said the meeting "couldn't have gone better from Mamdani's perspective."
But he warned their relationship could quickly sour.
One flashpoint might be immigration raids as Trump wages an expanding crackdown on migrants across the United States.
Mamdani has vowed to protect immigrant communities.
Before the November vote, the president also threatened to slash federal funding for New York if it picked Mamdani, whom he called a "communist lunatic."
The mayor-elect has said he believes Trump is a fascist.
 - Block party -
Mamdani's private swearing-in to start his four-year term was performed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who successfully prosecuted Trump for fraud.
A larger, ceremonial inauguration is scheduled later Thursday with speeches from left-wing allies Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Around 4,000 ticketed guests are expected to attend the event outside City Hall.
Mamdani's team has also organized a block party that it says will enable tens of thousands of people to watch the ceremony at streetside viewing areas along Broadway.
In a first for the city, Mamdani is using several Korans to be sworn in as mayor -- two from his family and one that belonged to Puerto Rico-born Black writer Arturo Schomburg, The New York Times reported.
The new job comes with a change of address as he swaps his rent-controlled apartment in the borough of Queens for the luxurious mayor's residence in Manhattan.
Some had wondered if he would move to the official mansion given his campaigning on affordability issues. Mamdani said he is doing so mainly for security reasons.
Born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin, Mamdani moved to New York at age seven and enjoyed an elite upbringing with only a relatively brief stint in politics, becoming a member of the New York State Assembly before being elected mayor.
Compensating for his inexperience, he is surrounding himself with seasoned aides recruited from past mayoral administrations and former US president Joe Biden's government.
Mamdani has also opened dialogue with business leaders, some of whom predicted a massive exodus of wealthy New Yorkers if he won. Real estate leaders have debunked those claims.
As a defender of Palestinian rights, he will have to reassure the Jewish community of his inclusive leadership.
Recently, one of his hires resigned after it was revealed she had posted antisemitic tweets years ago.

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