NYC Mayor Rejects RSS Leader’s Event | Pakistan News

Pakistan News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 26, 2026 · 1m

New York City’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has publicly opposed an upcoming event in Manhattan featuring Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the RSS — the ideological backbone of India’s ruling BJP — calling its exclusionary ideology at odds with the pluralistic values he grew up with. Though the city lacks legal authority to cancel a private gathering, Mamdani’s stance highlights mounting local criticism of the event, billed as a “Universal Oneness Celebration” by Hindu American groups, amid global concerns over the RSS’s violent history and India’s rising minority abuses —…