A Jihadist. A terrorist. A communist. A Muslim. A lunatic. A firebrand. A socialist. A reformist. These and many others are the tags and labels being given to Zohran Mamdani the new nominee of the Democratic party’s New York City mayor election. His race against Andrew Cuomo may seem a typical intra party politics but there is nothing typical about it.

It is a campaign that has turned the staid and stale primary races into a scintillating duel between the old and the new, between the old and the young, between the set and the upset. It has created havoc with set way of running campaigns. It has created uproar in the set of running politics. And, it has created cracks in the set rules and regulations of the “established” forces in America.

All this blitz is not in a general election for the Presidential race, this is a mere primary race to elect a nominee for a mayor of a city. Despite that it has caught the imagination of the voters in New York. Despite that it has caught the eye of the global media. Despite that it has become the focus of electoral experts, geo political analysts, and social scientists. It has caught the electoral politics by a storm.

Zohran Mamdani is everything that the big guns in the big parties love to hate. He is only 33 years of age. He is Muslim. He is anti-Netanyahu. He calls........

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