"New Yorkers faced a clear choice, between hope and fear, and just like we've seen in London, hope won."
"A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new."
"Loud, defiant, and unmistakably Indian."
"The city is walking, eyes open, into the abyss into which London has already plunged."
Zohran Mamdani won New York's mayoralty with a grassroots campaign focused on making the city more affordable. Sadiq Khan congratulated Mamdani and framed the result as a choice of hope over fear, drawing parallels with London; Khan is London’s first Muslim mayor and a career politician who has faced hostility from Donald Trump. Labour MP Luke Charters emphasized delivering real solutions rather than empty slogans. Jeremy Corbyn praised a grassroots movement built on the idea that everyone deserves dignity. Mamdani was born in Uganda to Indian parents, moved to New York at seven, and became a US citizen in 2018. He quoted Jawaharlal Nehru: "A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new." The Times of India described his celebration as "Loud, defiant, and unmistakably Indian." Some in Israel reacted with alarm after Mamdani accused Israel of carrying out a genocide, a position rejected by the Israeli government but shared by some scholars and a UN inquiry. Israeli minister Amichai Chikli warned the city was "walking, eyes open, into the abyss." Around a million Jewish people live in and around New York City.
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