Indian-origin Democrat Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday invoked India’s former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech after defeating ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayoral elections in the United States.
“Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru,” Mamdani said in his victory speech. “A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”
This was part of Nehru’s historic speech “Tryst with Destiny”, delivered on the eve of India’s independence in 1947.
“Tonight, we have stepped out from the old into the new,” Mamdani said. “So let us speak now in clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom. This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve rather than a list of excuses for what we are too...
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