Abdul El-Sayed, 1st Muslim to be elected to US Senate, shares Diwali greetings

The first Muslim to be elected to the US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, shared pictures of himself lighting diyas while extending Diwali greetings. "Happy Diwali to all who celebrate the Festival of Light," he wrote on X. The Michigan Senator-elect, whose wife Sarah traces her family roots to Karnataka's Bhatkal, once joked that he might be "more Indian than Arab".