{"id":90503,"date":"2025-11-06T16:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=90503"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:37:44","slug":"zohran-mamdani-hails-ramiz-rajas-commentary-for-team-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/zohran-mamdani-hails-ramiz-rajas-commentary-for-team-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani hails Ramiz Raja&#8217;s commentary for team motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Democratic socialist and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/new-york-city-hit-by-flash-flooding-state-of-emergency-declared\/\">New York City<\/a> mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has turned out to be a fan of former Pakistani cricketer and commentator Ramiz Raja.<\/p>\n<p>34-year-old Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, after which a video of the election campaign of the newly elected mayor of New York City is going viral on various social media platforms, which has now been reshared by Ramiz Raja.<\/p>\n<p>In the viral video,\u00a0Mamdani can be seen addressing his team.<\/p>\n<p>He quoted Ramiz Raja to boost the enthusiasm of his colleagues and repeated his lines (To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory).<\/p>\n<p>Ramiz Raja reshared the aforementioned video of the election campaign of the newly elected mayor of New York City on the micro-blogging website X and congratulated him, saying, \u201cCongratulations, Mr. Mamdani, and thank you for being a fan of commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Many congratulations Mr Mamdani And thank you for being a commentary enthusiast !You played with a straight bat and exposed the ones who \u201cwere not playing cricket\u201d so proud of you ! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/zohranfornyc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#zohranfornyc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1U6syTLCe7\">pic.twitter.com\/1U6syTLCe7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ramiz Raja (@iramizraja) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iramizraja\/status\/1986060908616122634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nRamiz Raja said that you have exposed those who do not play cricket by playing with a straight bat. I am very proud of you.<\/p>\n<h2>Zohran Mamdani<\/h2>\n<p>Zohran, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/nyc-will-lose-funding-unless-muslim-mayor-elect-behaves-trump\/\">New York City mayoral race<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state lawmaker to one of the country\u2019s most visible Democratic figures,\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani will become the first Muslim mayor of the largest US city. He defeated Democratic former Governor Andrew Cuomo, 67, who ran as an independent after losing the nomination to Mamdani in the primary election.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>CBS<\/em>, Mamdani received 1,035,645 votes (50.4 per cent) against 854,783 (41.6pc) for former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and 146,127 (7.1 per cent) for Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign served as an ideological and generational contest that could have national implications for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Democratic socialist and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has turned out to be a fan of former Pakistani cricketer and commentator Ramiz Raja. 34-year-old Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, after which a video of the election campaign of the newly elected mayor of New York City is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":90505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29808],"class_list":["post-90503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90506,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90503\/revisions\/90506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}