Congress chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Thursday criticised Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate of Indian origin for the New York Metropolis mayoral polls.
Singhvi mentioned that when Mamdani speaks, the general public relations workforce of Pakistan ‘takes a day without work.’
“When Zohran Mamdani opens his mouth, Pakistan’s PR workforce takes the day without work. India doesn’t want enemies with ‘allies’ like him shouting fiction from New York,” Singhvi mentioned in a publish on the social media platform X.
Zohran Mamdani additionally confronted criticism from the opposite facet of the aisle in India, with BJP MP Kangana Ranaut additionally attacking the New York assemblyman.
In keeping with the actor turned politician, Mamdani sounds extra Pakistani than Indian.
“His mom is Mira Nair, certainly one of our greatest filmmakers, Padma Shri , a beloved and celebrated daughter born and raised in nice Bharat primarily based in New York, she married Mehmood Mamdani ( Gujarati origin) a celebrated writer, and clearly son is called Zohran, he sounds extra Pakistani than Indian,”Ranaut claimed.
Zohran Mamdani declares victory over Andrew Cuomo in NYC Democratic mayoral major
Zohran Mamdani has claimed victory over a wounded, however nonetheless formidable, former state governor, Andrew Cuomo, in New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral major.
Now he faces an equally robust process: Defeating Mayor Eric Adams and a Republican opponent — and possibly even Cuomo once more — within the basic election, whereas warding off critics who argue the 33-year-old democratic socialist is just too far to the left.
Whereas the outcomes have but to be finalised, Mamdani had a commanding lead that will likely be exceedingly tough for Cuomo to beat when the vote depend resumes July 1 in New York Metropolis’s ranked-choice voting system.
Mamdani’s probably win was a political lightning bolt—partly due to the beautiful upset of New York’s as soon as omnipotent former governor and in addition due to the alerts it despatched about what sort of chief Democrats are gravitating towards following the get together’s bruising loss to Republican President Donald Trump final 12 months.
