Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim Mayor of London

London chose Sadiq Khan as mayor, a son of a bus driver from Pakistan who had been accused of having links to extremism.

Results of voting on Thursday (05/05), showed the Labour Party candidate won 56.8% of the vote while his nearest rival Zac Goldsmith of the Conservative Party won 43.2% of the vote, with a participation rate of 45.3% of the total number of voters.

Khan, who was born in London in 1970 was raised in the apartment with her six brothers and sisters in Tooting, south London regions with ethnically diverse.

"My story is the story of London. My father was a bus driver and my mother a tailor. London gives me the opportunity to grow, from flats and run a successful business and served in the cabinet," said Khan, a member of parliament opposition, the Labour Party , on its website.

The party that led the Conservatives accused him linked with Islamic extremism, but he denounced radicalism as cancer. He also said that support same-sex marriage, a move that earned him death threats.

Khan's closest rival in the race to seize a place in the town hall of London, Zac Goldsmith is a tycoon.

Khan quit his job as a human rights lawyer and an MP for Tooting in 2005.

The first Muslim minister

In 2008, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed him minister of the community before becoming minister of transport, as well as the first Muslim minister who attended the cabinet meeting.

He joined the Labour Party at the age of 15 years and was appointed as a member of the assembly in an area controlled by the Conservative Party in London, Wandsworth, in 1994.

In a question and answer session in parliament late last April, Prime Minister David Cameron questioned considerations Khan to attend an event similar to the man who is called to support the movement which calls itself the Islamic State or ISIS.

Khan accused the prime minister's statement is 'split'.

In the question and answer session on April 20 that, Cameron stated,

"I worry about a candidate (party) Labour, which appears again and again and again (in the same event with Suliman Gani in his constituency, Tooting),"

before being interrupted by party members workers with shouts, 'embarrassing'.

Khan was elected with a large enough advantage of Zac Goldsmith, who also accused him related to terrorism.

A lawmaker from the Conservative Party, Andrew Boff, Goldsmith questioned the negative campaign that associates with a radical.

Boff told the BBC, the negative approach such as this damage relations with the various communities of the Conservative Party in London.