Overview
- As his victory speech ended, the Bollywood track “Dhoom Machale” played while he walked off stage alongside his wife, Rama Duwaji, and his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair.
- Clips of the moment surged across social media with heavy interest from India and the South Asian diaspora.
- Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, won the race over former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
- In his remarks, he quoted Jawaharlal Nehru and told President Donald Trump that New York will remain a city of immigrants.
- Born in Uganda to an Indian-origin family, he moved to the United States as a child and became a U.S. citizen in 2018.