India, Nov. 5 -- Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday celebrated his win in the New York City elections by borrowing a quote from Jawaharlal Nehru's iconic Tryst with Destiny speech.

Speaking to his supporters after his victory, Mamdani quoted Nehru's speech from 1947 when India marked its independence from over 200 years of British rule.

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance," quoted Mamdani, adding that tonight New York has stepped from the old into the new.

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