India, Nov. 5 -- "@ZohranKMamdani, congrats on the win. Now you have a big responsibility. If I can help NYC, just let me know what I can do," @BillAckman wrote on X. That's a 180 from when he threatened to leave New York if Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Mayoral elections-which, he did.

Zohran Mamdani-a naturalised US citizen born in Uganda to India-origin parents-has become the 111th mayor of New York after an mayoral election win against Andrew Cuomo, who had the backing of the most powerful man in the world (US President Donald Trump) and the world's richest person (Elon Musk). That puts a democratic socialist at the helm of affairs of a city that has the highest number of billionaires in the world.

The 34-year-old state lawma...