Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram, on Thursday congratulated Nithya Raman on becoming the Mayor of Los Angeles, highlighting her Indian roots and saying that two of America’s biggest cities would now be led by people of Indian origin.
The Congress leader also compared the powers available to mayors in the United States with those given to their counterparts in India.
He said he was confident that Raman and Mamdani would do a “far better job” than mayors in India, who, according to him, have limited authority to govern their cities. “I’m sure they will do a far better job than their counterparts back in India, who are reduced to powerlessness by a British-era system that disperses authority and budgets, leaving Mayors here without any real means to govern their cities effectively,” he said.
MeanwhilIndian-origin Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman took the lead over incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the mayoral election, according to fresh figures released by the Los Angeles Times. However, election analysts warned that the contest was still too close to call. As counting continued, Raman, 45, secured 51.1% of the votes, while Bass, 73, received 48.33%, the report said.
