Legendary actress Shabana Azmi cheered Zohran Mamdani on emerging as Mayor of New York City, the youngest and first Muslim elected.
On Wednesday, taking to her Facebook handle she penned down a long note, sending wishes to Mamdani
heaping praises for the victory and slammed Donald Trump for spreading negativity about the former.
“Zohraan Mamdani wins. She is on clouf nine not because Zohraan is Mira and Mahmoud’s son, but because of who Zohraan is and the hope he represents for social justice.
She added that she was having a close watch over his campaign.
Notwithstanding all the negative publicity that was manufactured against him with Trump even pathetically saying that he is better looking than him!’ Zohraan is young and promising. Further making it known that ‘Politics is not something that is done to us, politics is something we do for ourselves. A bold vision of what we can achieve not excuses for what hasn’t been done!’ More power to you.
Zohran Mamdani is a 33-year-old Indian-origin New York State Assembly man. October 18, 1991 Kampala Uganda born Zohran Mamdani is the son of Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani, an Indian-born Ugandan Marxist scholar. The 67-year-old filmmaker, best acknowledged for Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay!, united into wedlock with Mahmood the same year she had her son.
When Zohran was just five years old, the family shifted base to Cape Town, South Africa, only to relocate to New York City two years later. After his early education at the Bank Street School for Children in NYC he later attended the Bronx High School of Science for his higher studies.
In 2014, he graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in Africana Studies, and amidst his college days, Zohran was involved in student advocacy. He even founded the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
News Edit KV Raman
