Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 03:07pm on 04 Nov 2026,Wednesday India Global
US Senator Abdul El-Sayed, who became the country’s first Muslim senator after winning Michigan’s Senate race, has family ties to Karnataka through his wife, Dr Sarah Jukaku. Sarah is the granddaughter of JH Shamsuddin Jukaku, a prominent lawyer, educator and politician from Bhatkal who served as deputy finance minister in the erstwhile Mysore State government in 1958. He was also elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1946 and later represented Honnavar in the Mysore Legislative Assembly. Sarah’s father, nephrologist Dr Jukaku S Tayeb, moved to the US in the 1980s. Sarah met El-Sayed at the University of Michigan, and they married in May 2006. (PC: AP)
