{"id":1139244,"date":"2026-01-01T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1139244"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:03:42","slug":"zohran-mamdani-is-sworn-in-as-first-muslim-mayor-of-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/zohran-mamdani-is-sworn-in-as-first-muslim-mayor-of-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as first Muslim mayor of New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Iftikhar Ali<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">NEW YORK, Jan 01 (APP): Zohran Mamdani was sworn in\u00a0 as New York City mayor early Thursday, becoming the first Muslim and South Asian to lead the US largest city after taking the oath of office on the holy Quran.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just after the last seconds of 2025 ticked away, the ceremony took place at an abandoned Old City Hall subway station, one of the city\u2019s original stations built in 1904 and decommissioned in 1945.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York Attorney General Letitia James administered the oath alongside Mamdani\u2019s family ahead of a public ceremony Thursday afternoon to be led by Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zohraan\u00a0 is the son of Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University, and Mira Nair, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose credits include \u201cMississippi Masala\u201d and \u201cMonsoon Wedding.\u201d He speaks Urdu fluently.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to several US media reports, the holy Qurans used during the ceremony included a copy belonging to Mamdani\u2019s grandfather and another once owned by Black writer and historian Arturo Schomburg lent by the New York Public Library.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uganda-born Mamdani, 34,\u00a0 who deployed a mix of charm, social media savvy and an unyielding focus on affordability to catapult him to political stardom,\u00a0 is the City&#8217;s youngest Mayor,\u00a0 a job which comes with a $116 billion budget and global scrutiny.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He won the mayoral race in Nov. 4 elections, defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in a historic victory for the Democratic Party\u2019s progressive wing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A democratic socialist, Mamdani ran his campaign focused on affordability and expanded social services, pledging free buses, universal childcare, city-run grocery stores, expanded rent-stabilized housing and raising the minimum wage to $30 per hour by 2030.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Iftikhar Ali NEW YORK, Jan 01 (APP): Zohran Mamdani was sworn in\u00a0 as New York City mayor early Thursday, becoming the first Muslim and South Asian to lead the US largest city after taking the oath of office on the holy Quran. 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