Sarah Jukaku: First Muslim U.S. senator's wife has Karnataka roots

Dr. Sarah Jukaku, wife of Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate, has family roots in Bhatkal, Karnataka, India, according to media reports. Sarah is the granddaughter of J.H. Shamsuddin Jukaku, a lawyer who served as Deputy Finance Minister in the erstwhile Mysore State government in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and later as Deputy Minister for Electricity. Her father, Jukaku S. Tayeb, also a doctor, moved to the U.S. in the 1980s. Sarah met El-Sayed at the University of Michigan, and the couple married in 2006. Following Shamsuddin's death, family members dispersed across India, including Bengaluru, but the family reportedly maintains ties with relatives in India.