NEW YORK (Diya TV) — At a rally focused on the Muslim and South Asian communities, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Congressman Ro Khanna made their final pitch to voters ahead of Tuesday’s election.
In his remarks, Mamdani urged supporters to stay active through the final stretch of the campaign, telling the crowd, “We know that in these final days of this election, as those like Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams realize that the only thing they’ve ever cared about—power—is slipping away, they will become more desperate.” He called for “a vision of a city where all of us belong,” adding that New York should be “a city that every single New Yorker can afford.”
Addressing the crowd directly, Mamdani asked attendees to raise their hands if they had ever been called a terrorist or made to feel lesser because of their faith or name. “These words offend me because they are about all of us,” he said, vowing to reject “politics in this city that seeks to discard those they deem to be disposable.”
He closed by urging supporters to keep campaigning until Election Day. “We have three days,” he said. “We want the next three days to be days where we do not sleep — days where we leave everything out in the field — days that we can look back on and say we did everything we could.”
Speaking afterward to Diya TV’s Ravi Kapur, Congressman Khanna praised Mamdani’s candidacy as historic for South Asians in American politics. “We should be so proud of what Zohran’s going to do,” Khanna said. “Who would have thought a South Asian is going to become mayor of New York City? Whether you’re of Muslim faith, Hindu faith, or Christian faith, you can achieve political representation and a voice in America.”
Khanna acknowledged that some voters had expressed concern over what they viewed as divisive campaign rhetoric but said he believes Mamdani will govern inclusively. “That’s one of the reasons I’m here — to say we need to build a broad coalition,” he said. “You saw that here today. A lot of Muslim Americans, Hindu Americans, all out here today.”
Mamdani is the Democratic nominee in Tuesday’s general election and, if elected, would become the first Indian-American and first Muslim mayor of New York City.
