Father of New York Mayor-elect Mamandi says he will keep distance from his son’s administrator

Zohran Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, will keep his distance from his son’s new administration, according to a new interview with the Ugandan-born academic published Tuesday.

The 79-year-old professor spoke with The American goalkeeper following his democratic socialist son’s decisive victory in New York’s mayoral elections, where he is expected to be sworn in as the new mayor on January 1.

“As far as my relationship with the Zohran administration, I think that initially, at least, Mira and I will have the relationship that we had during the campaign, which is to remain distant, but always available,” the elder Mamdani told the outlet.

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Zohran Mamdani left with his mother, Mira Nair, and father, Mahmood Mamdani, in June. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

“Always be available to discuss, to share our point of view, but without confusing us with it,” he added.

Mahmood Mamdani, professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University and director of the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Uganda, also promoted his new book, “Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State.”

The work is described as a re-examination of the Ugandan dictatorship of Idi Amin.

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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the elected mayor of New York. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Speaking in an interview with the Guardian on political power, Mahmood Mamdani also said: “I don’t believe in just staying away from power, but I don’t think we should accept it.

“Power is a fatal thing for intellectuals. It corrupts intellectuals. I have seen many, many friends corrupted in the process.”

Born in India and raised in Uganda, Mahmood Mamdani was deported in 1972 under Idi Amin’s decree targeting citizens of South Asian origin.

He later became an academic based in the United States and taught at several leading universities.

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New York State Assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, center, his mother, Mira Nair, left, his wife, Rama Duwaji, and his father, Mahmood Mamdani, celebrate on stage at a campaign event June 24 in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Married to filmmaker Mira Nair since 1991, the two met while she was filming “Mississippi Masala” in Uganda.

Zohran was born in 1991 and became a community organizer and New York State assemblyman representing Astoria, Queens.

In the weeks leading up to Zohran’s campaign for mayor of New York, controversy surrounding Mahmood Mamdani surfaced after a video of him discussing America’s influence on global settler colonialism went viral.

The clip, viewed more than 10 million times, showed him saying during a 2022 panel discussion that the United States served as a model for later colonial projects, including those of Nazi Germany, Fox News Digital reported in July.

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Additionally, Mahmood Mamdani’s 2004 book, “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror,” said to have been dedicated to “Zohran and his companions,” contained a line arguing that suicide bombings “should be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for comment.

Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.