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Veteran Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi has congratulated Zohran Mamdani as he has been elected as the first Muslim and youngest mayor of New York City. On Wednesday, Azmi took to her Facebook handle and penned down a long note, sending wishes to Mamdani. She praised Mamdani’s victory and slammed Donald Trump for spreading negativity about the former. “Zohraan Mamdani wins!!!! I am over the moon! Not only because Zohraan is Mira and Mahmoud’s son, but because of who Zohraan is and the hope he represents for social justice,” Shabana Azmi wrote. “I have been watching his campaign closely .. inspite of all the negative publicity that was manufactured against him with Trump even pathetically saying that ‘I am better looking than him!’ Zohraan is young and promising. ‘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,” she added. Zohran Mamdani’s India Connection Zohran Mamdani is a 33-year-old Indian-origin New York State Assemblyman. Born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, 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 known for Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay!, got married to Mahmood the same year she had her son. When Zohran was just five years old, the family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, only to relocate to New York City two years later. He did his early education at the Bank Street School for Children in NYC and 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 during his college days, Zohran was involved in student advocacy. He even founded the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
