The pattern of Mamdani’s lies about India and about Israel is the same in both cases: false claims and wild exaggerations designed to portray Muslims as victims, inculcate a grievance mentality, and exacerbate divisions among people in a manner that allows for justification of Islamic jihad violence.
“New York mayoral race: Academicians, ex-civil servants, and diaspora leaders urge action against Zohran Mamdani for Hinduphobic lies in letters to S Jaishankar, Mira Nair,” OpIndia, September 6, 2025:
Mamdani is notorious for a consistent pattern of inflammatory statements directed at Hindus and India. At a public forum hosted by New York Focus in May 2025, Mamdani compared PM Modi to Israeli PM Netanyahu, calling him a “war criminal.” The remarks sparked outrage among Indo-American leaders, who accused him of promoting hate and deepening divides.
The impending mayoral election in New York City has sparked an unusual diplomatic and cultural debate in India, with Hindu intellectuals, retired officers, professionals, and community leaders issuing open letters raising concerns over the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani for his Hinduphobic tendencies.
Two separate letters, one addressed to India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and another to filmmaker Mira Nair, Mamdani’s mother, have gained wide attention for their strong language and the list of signatories attached to them.
Concerns voiced to the Indian government
In a letter dated August 26, addressed to Dr. S. Jaishankar, the signatories urged India to take a firm stand against what they described as Mamdani’s “Hinduphobic lies” and defamatory remarks about PM Modi and India.
The letter accused Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and frontrunner in the New York mayoral race, of falsely claiming that there were no Muslims left in Gujarat and of labelling Prime Minister Modi a “war criminal.” Citing census data and Supreme Court judgments, the authors argued these assertions were baseless and harmful to India’s global image.
The letter proposed specific measures for the Ministry of External Affairs, including Official condemnation of Mamdani’s remarks, a diplomatic protest to Washington, revocation of any Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status he may hold, denial of entry into India, and scrutiny of his alleged links to anti-India organisations.
An appeal to Mira Nair as mother and filmmaker
The second open letter, also dated August 26, took a different approach by appealing directly to Mira Nair. Addressing her as both a public figure and mother, the signatories urged her to counsel her son against making “offensive and factually incorrect” statements about India.
The letter invited Nair to undertake a fact-finding trip to Gujarat, with expenses covered by the authors, to demonstrate to her son that millions of Muslims continue to reside in the state. It further reminded her of the Supreme Court’s clean chit to Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots, as well as details of the Godhra train burning that triggered the violence.
The letter also criticised Mamdani’s past remarks about “globalising the Intifada,” calling them inflammatory and antisemitic.
Zohran Mamdani and his inflammatory rhetoric against Hindus and India
Mamdani is notorious for a consistent pattern of inflammatory statements directed at Hindus and India. At a public forum hosted by New York Focus in May 2025, Mamdani compared PM Modi to Israeli PM Netanyahu, calling him a “war criminal.” The remarks sparked outrage among Indo-American leaders, who accused him of promoting hate and deepening divides.
This was not an isolated incident. In 2020, Mamdani described Hindus aligned with Modi’s party as “fascists” and berated fellow New York politicians Jenifer Rajkumar and Kevin Thomas for not denouncing Modi. Rajkumar responded at the time by calling his comments “extreme and divisive.”
Invoking the 2002 Gujarat riots, Mamdani has repeatedly claimed that “there are no Gujarati Muslims anymore.” However, census data confirms nearly six million Muslims in Gujarat in 2011, a number that has only grown since. Courts in India, including the Supreme Court, have exonerated Modi of allegations relating to the riots, noting that the violence began after a Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in Godhra, killing 59.
Mamdani also opposed the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, appearing at a rally in 2020 where derogatory chants against Hindus were raised. His critics say this reflects a larger hostility toward Hindu identity.
His rhetoric has not been limited to India. Mamdani has frequently courted controversy for his anti-Israel positions, including refusing to sign resolutions condemning the Holocaust or commemorating Israel’s founding. Colleagues in the New York State Assembly have accused him of “unapologetic antisemitism.”
Community leaders argue that Mamdani’s rhetoric threatens the pluralistic ethos of New York. Jaspreet Singh, a Sikh community leader, remarked: “Instead of uniting the Indian community, he seeks to divide us by religion, pitting Muslims and Hindus against each other. Associating Hindus with fascism and using derogatory words against them is highly objectionable.”…
BTeboe says
Mamdami is a fraud. He claims to be a Democratic Socialist – an oxymoron if there ever was one. Don’t expect him live like the peasants he plans on overseeing. Just be advised you can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out.
Hoi Polloi says
Thank you for another arrow in the quiverful of arguments against this islamunist.
NYC needs full focus on its myriad problems, not a jihadi trying to start wars all over the world, using his false leftist utopian promises to distract and draw in NYC youth. His opponents need to get down to the real work and offer real solutions if they actually want to stop him. Do they?
somehistory says
An ugly creature, inside and out. The ghoul’s goals are evil because he is a muzzescum and they learn evil very early.
When the wrong person is put in charge….be it a king, governor, mayor….the people suffer.
In this case, the *people* have a choice; it may not be the best of choices, but they can refrain from choosing this ugly, evil lying creature to rule over them..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Jaishankar is a lifelong bureaucrat and has no credibility: all he is good for is making vapid statements in public. One of the worst people Modi could have made his foreign minister
As for Mira Nair, she hates Hindus: there’s a reason she married a muslim and probably either converted, or remains an atheist. There is no way her son would have had the views on Hindus that he does w/o her tacit approval. No, Mira Nair is as despicable as both her husband and son, if not more: she was born into a Hindu family but learnt to hate the religion of her family, regardless of whether she believed in it or not
Falsafa says
Spencer and his motley crew of bigots are now sucking up to Modi now I see.
Mamdani will become NYCs next mayor putting all you extremist lunatics in your place.
Love how muslim politicians continue to live in your مخ rent free!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually no. He has said nothing about Modi, and mentioned jihadist activity in India whenever it happens. I’m the only one covering Modi to any extent here these days, and I’m completely anti-Modi, but for the opposite reasons as you. You think Modi is an anti-islam leader: I know just the opposite. Both as his record as chief minister in Gujarat (where the bulk of those killed by his police in the riots were Hindus, not muslims) and as prime minister, he has a ton of policies empowering muslims to an extent that wasn’t there even during the secular Congress era
RSS/BJP are frauds when it comes to this issue: they convince Hindus at election time that they are pro-Hindu, but then they do all sorts of things – sabotage Hindu festivals (like no fireworks in Diwali), open up traditional Hindu pilgrim sites like Uttarakhand to muslims, where there had been a zero muslim population previously, claim that Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life, encourage Hindus to eat beef to create social harmony, make India the #2 beef exporter in the world (after Brazil), the list goes on. The BJP almost lost the elections last year, except for the gains they made in one state, and they are right now in power as a part of a coalition. I’m a Hindu, and I’m rooting for a real Hindu party in India to emerge and take on BJP, Congress and all the parties there, which are all secular
Point of these stories is to show HINOs – secular Hindus – how much muslims hate them. At al Aqsa mosque, there was an imam who made a speech to a bunch of Pakistanis telling them that it was their duty to wipe out Hindus next door in India, since they are next door. Same w/ this story about Mamdani and his pathological hatred of Hindus, the faith of one side of his grandparents
I do agree w/ you that he’s likely to win, since Eric Adams is at 8% and Cuomo is totally discredited, and Curtis Sliwa is a joke. But had there been only 1 candidate running against him, it would be a lot closer. Anyway, even if he wins, the fact that Trump 47 has stopped ignoring the cities as Article 10 subjects means that he and his pal Alvin Bragg won’t be able to make NYC a paradise for criminals again, no matter how much they want to
OLD GUY says
Mamdani will probably become the next mayor of NY City. The good news is many large companies and wealthy individuals will be moving into the fly over states. Not so good for New Yorkers, but you get what you elect.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Unfortunately, everybody seems to be moving to just 3 states – Florida, Tennessee and Texas. I wish they were more scattered nationwide – the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, even Alaska. So that there would be business opportunities nationwide, not just in a handful of states
somehistory says
Florida has enough already. More than.
OLD GUY says
Hopefully other states will welcome and entice companies to come into their states .
Leonidas says
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Crusader says
NYC the victim of the horrific jihadist attacks on WTC on 9/11/01 with more than 2500 victims cannot have a Muslim mayor in 2025. New Yorkers will see to it that Cuomo will be elected now that Mayor Adams is no longer a candidate. COMMON SENSE WILL PREVAIL!