America’s candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Zoharan said that in PM Modi’s vision of India, there is space only for certain types of Indians.

Addressing an Indian-American community program organized on the occasion of Diwali, Zoharan Mamdani reiterated that his view of India is different from that of PM Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

my criticism BJP And she has been following Modi’s thinking – Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani said, ‘I criticize PM Modi because the India I grew up in was a pluralistic India. An India where people of every religion lived equally. My criticism has been towards the thinking of Modi and BJP in which there is space only for certain types of Indians. I believe that its pluralistic thinking should be celebrated and efforts should be made to adopt it.

He said, ‘I know that I am contesting for the post of mayor of New York City, which is a city of eight and a half million people. Many people here may have a different opinion than me about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that is their right and I will represent everyone equally because it is my duty to make sure that every New Yorker feels safe and can live comfortably in this city.

Modi has also been criticized for Gujarat riots

It is noteworthy that Zoharan Mamdani, son of Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nayak, has been a strong critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the past as well. He has called PM Modi a war criminal. Apart from this, he also condemned the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the Gujarat riots in 2002.

Mamdani, who calls himself a democratic socialist, has focused on reducing rising inflation and the cost of living in New York during his election campaign. Additionally, they have used public relations and especially social media strategies to take their campaign to the grassroots level. Due to this he has also become popular among different sections of people.

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Former Rajya Sabha MP and former Chairman of the Minorities Commission, Tarlochan Singh has given a big statement about the 2002 Gujarat riots. He said that this riot was the result of anger arising out of the Sabarmati Express fire and PM Modi handled it well. Tarlochan Singh appreciated the participation of PM Narendra Modi for this.

He said that if Narendra Modi did not handle it, Gujarat would have been burnt. The families of the people burnt in the train wanted to take their bodies to their village, but Modi ji performed his last rites there. Think if people had taken the bodies of their families to the village, then how much anger would have arisen among other people and Gujarat would have been burnt.

‘Government has no role in riots’

On Wednesday (August 27, 2025) during a conversation with ANI, Tarlochan Singh said that during the Gujarat riots, Narendra Modi showed courage and stopped it from happening. The 2002 Gujarat riot was the result of public anger and the government had no role in it. He said that the riot of Gujarat was not sponsored like the 1984 riots in Delhi. In 2002, I was the chairman of the Minorities Commission.

Let us know that Narendra Modi, the CM of the 2002 Gujarat riots, was the CM of Gujarat and Tarlochan Singh was the chairman of the Minorities Commission. He said that after the riot, I first reached there and I questioned the people, but no one knew about this incident.

Riot was limited to Ahmedabad

Praising PM Modi, Tarlochan Singh said that the role of Narendra Modi was commendable as Gujarat CM. Modi ji had decided that the last rites of all the killed kar sevaks should be done there. If the bodies reached the villages, then how much anger would have arisen among the people, we can only imagine it. The result of Narendra Modi’s courage is that the riots took place in Ahmedabad and its surrounding area and the whole Gujarat survived.

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