Mamdani's mom, born in India, now says she is 'mother of New York City'

As socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been sworn into office, his mother has said that she is going to be the "mother of New York City" while her son is in office. Mamdani was inaugurated on Thursday after being introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

When Mira Nair, Mamdani's mother who was born and raised in India, was asked if she would be helping out at all with Mamdani's administration, she responded, “Of course, I’m going to be the mother of New York City," per the New York Post. Nair never imagined that her son would become mayor.

Mamdani, 34, was inaugurated on January 1 after being sworn into office. Both Mamdani's mother and father were part of the swearing-in ceremony that was put on for their son. “We are following Z around as much as we can," Nair wrote in a text to the New York Times on Tuesday leading up to the ceremony. Nair said her other plans were to “take a walk in Riverside Park to ponder what I could do as the first mother of the city.”

Mamdani, who is one of the youngest mayors of the city ever, pushed a number of far-left policies during his campaign, including rent freezes, increasing the minimum wage to $30 an hour, as well as "shifting the burden" of property taxes onto "whiter neighborhoods."

Nair and Mamdani's father, Mahmood Mamdani, 79, are both part of the elite class of New York, the mother being a filmmaker and the father being a professor of international affairs as well as a published author. The parents said they would end the celebration of Mamdani's inauguration with a family event on Thursday evening with their son as well as his wife, Rama Duwaji, and others.