US senator Abdul El-Sayed's wife Sarah Jukaku traces family roots to Karnataka's Bhatkal

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Sarah Jukaku, the wife of U.S. Senator Abdul El‑Sayed and the first Muslim senator’s spouse, traces her family roots to Karnataka’s coastal town of Bhatkal, where she is the granddaughter of the late lawyer J.H. Shamsuddin Jukaku, who served as Deputy Finance Minister in the Mysore State government under Chief Minister B.D. Jatti in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her Karnataka lineage links a coastal family legacy to a historic political milestone in the United States, and her extended family in Karnataka celebrated the senator’s win in the U.S. mid‑term elections.

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