US-bound Senator Abdul Al Sayed's Indian Connection Revealed

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US-bound Senator Abdul Al Sayed's Indian Connection Revealed
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Abdul Al Sayed, who is going to be the first Muslim Senator of America, has a strong India connection. Abdul Al Sayed is married to Sara Jukaku from Karnataka. Democrat Abdul Al-Sayyed has made history by winning the Michigan Senate seat in the midterm elections. These elections are seeing a'Blue Wave'across America. Although few people know that he also has a connection to Karnataka. His wife, Dr. Sara Jukaku, is the granddaughter of a former minister in the former Mysore state government. Sara's family belongs to Bhatkal in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, a city located about 140 km north of Mangaluru in 1973. Her grandfather, जे.एच. Shamsuddin Jukaku, was a well-known lawyer, educationist, and politician. He served as Deputy Finance Minister in the then Mysore state government in the 1950s. The Mysore kingdom was formed when it was officially renamed as'Karnataka State'on 1 November 1956 under the Mysore Reorganisation Act.

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