India, Nov. 5 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday congratulated filmmaker Mira Nair after her son, Zohran Mamdani, won the race for New York mayor.

"Warmest congratulations to my old friend @MiraPagliNair on her son @ZohranKMamdani's spectacular victory and to his uncles, my Stephanian friends Vicky and Gautam Nair, for their nephew's triumph!" Tharoor wrote on X.

The Indian parliamentarian also lauded Mamdani for quoting Jawaharlal Nehru's 1947 speech, "Tryst with Destiny".

"Wonderfully apt," Shashi Tharoor said

"I'm reminded of Jawahar Lal Nehru's words. A moment 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. Tonight, New Yo...