India, Oct. 17 -- New York City Mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo have clashed over the former's Muslim identity that has taken the centre-stage in the upcoming elections to the city Mayor's post.

As the debates heated up for the November election, Cuomo, who is the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, attacked Mamdani calling him "anti-semitic".

Cuomo claimed the Jewish people were against Mamdani besides saying the latter was not a "representative of the Muslim community".

Mamdani sharply countered Cuomo highlighting the latter couldn't name a single mosque he had visited during the last debate.

Mamdani, who is looking to become the first Muslim, Indian-origin New York Mayor, is the son o...