NEW YORK: New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has hailed his election triumph as a historic moment that ends a long-standing political dynasty. Quoting former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Mamdani said his victory marked the city’s step “from the old to the new.”
Mamdani made history by defeating political heavyweight former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, alongside Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, in a closely-watched mayoral race.
“Friends, we have toppled a political dynasty,” Mamdani said in his victory speech on Tuesday night. “I wish Andrew Cuomo all the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I utter his name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and serves only the few".
New York has delivered tonight. We won because New Yorkers dared to hope that the impossible could be made possible, and because we insisted that politics would no longer be something done to us, but something we actively shape.
“Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, a moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and the soul of a nation long suppressed finds voice. Tonight, we have stepped from the old into the new.”