{"id":36245,"date":"2025-03-13T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=36245"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:25:00","slug":"assemblywoman-jenifer-rajkumar-to-contest-for-public-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/36245","title":{"rendered":"Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar to contest for public advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: New York State Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar announced that she will contest for the post of public advocate and establish the city&#8217;s first Muslim American community center.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She was speaking at a fundraising and iftar dinner held in her honor by the Pakistan-American community.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani community business and social figures Khurram Khan and Malik Anwar hosted an Iftar dinner and a fundraiser in honor of New York City Public Advocate candidate Jenifer Rajkumar in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s hosts warmly welcomed their guest upon her arrival. Assemblywoman Jennifer Rajkumar also met with members of the Pakistan-American community.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing participants, she said that coming to Coney Island strengthens her belief in success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-13-at-8.20.23-PM-1-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-13-at-8.20.23-PM-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-13-at-8.20.23-PM-1-scaled.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-13-at-8.20.23-PM-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-13-at-8.20.23-PM-1-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-13-at-8.20.23-PM-1-390x220.jpeg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by a large number of people from different walks of life, including journalists, political, social and business circles, and Muslim officers in the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Jenifer Rajkumar also announced establishment of a community center for Muslims in New York City and appealed to vote in the election.<\/p>\n<p>The event&#8217;s hosts, Khurram Khan and Malik Anwar, thanked all the guests for their presence.<\/p>\n<p>The participants of the iftar dinner and fundraising assured Jenifer Raj that Kumar would succeed in the June 4 election through votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: New York State Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar announced that she will contest for the post of public advocate and establish the city&#8217;s first Muslim American community center. She was speaking at a fundraising and iftar dinner held in her honor by the Pakistan-American community. Pakistani community business and social figures Khurram Khan and Malik Anwar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36249,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions\/36249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}