New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has sent a handwritten note to jailed activist Umar Khalid, the activist’s partner Bunojyotsana Lahiri said on Thursday.
The letter was handed to Khalid’s parents during their visit to the United States in December.
Mamdani wrote that he often thought about Khalid’s words on bitterness and the “importance of not letting it consume one’s self”.
In the note shared on social media by Lahiri, Mamdani said that it was a pleasure to meet Khalid’s parents. “We are all thinking of you,” it added.
Zohran Mamdani writes to Umar Khalid.
December 2025. #FreeUmarKhalid#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners pic.twitter.com/QTYe06cRp5— banojyotsna … (@banojyotsna) January 1, 2026
In 2023, Mamdani had read out portions of a letter written by Khalid at an event in New York, in which the activist reflected on not becoming bitter about his circumstances, The Indian Express reported.
Lahiri shared Mamdani’s note on social media the day he was sworn in as the mayor of New York.
Lahiri said Khalid’s parents, Sahiba Khanam and Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, were in the US to visit one of their daughters ahead of a family wedding, The Indian Express reported.
“They met Mamdani and a few others in the US and spent quite some time with him,” she said. “That’s when he wrote this note.”
Khalid was arrested by the Delhi Police in September 2020.
The activist has been booked in an…
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