Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a hypocrite for owning lucrative land in Uganda while cosplaying on the campaign trail as a working-class savior, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo told The Post.
“Being a wealthy landowner with foreign investments, while holding a rent-stabilized apartment in the tightest housing market in the nation is the height of hypocrisy,” said Cuomo, who is running as an independent and polling second behind frontrunner Mamdani in the mayoral race.
“Zohran Mamdani can call himself a working class champion all he wants, but it’s just an act from an award-winning director’s son. Working men and women don’t live in mansions with armed guards and have family homes around the world — oligarchs’ sons do.
“Zohran Mamdani is a mansion boy living off family wealth.”
The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman, who has pushed for the “abolition of private property,” reported in recent state and city financial disclosure filings that he’s owned vacant land in Jinja, Uganda, valued at $100,000 to $250,000 since 2012.
His high-flying parents — Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani and “Monsoon Wedding” filmmaker Mira Nair — also own a breathtaking five-bedroom, four-bathroom villa in Uganda overlooking Lake Victoria that they’ve been renting out on Airbnb for the last eight years – despite Mamdani being a longtime foe of Airbnb, The Post reported last week.
The far-from-proletariat estate is a galaxy away from the everyday Joe their socialist son attempts to portray on the campaign trail — such as posting video of himself on social media chowing down a giant burrito on the subway – even as he’s come under fire for shamelessly living in a dirt-cheap rent-stabilized apartment in Queens despite his affluent upbringing.
Cuomo’s net worth is $10 million, according to Forbes.
Mamdani’s campaign did not return messages.
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