Hyd-origin man wins N Carolina senate race

Grandad Used To Work In CP Office In Old City

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Hyderabad: An Indian American with family roots in Hyderabad has won his election in the North Carolina Senate in the US.

Mujtaba A Mohammed won for the third time from Mecklenburg County's 38th district to represent it in the North Carolina Senate. The results were announced on November 10.

Mujtaba's parents Aziz Hassan Javed and Qamar Mohammad who lived at Mallepally in Hyderabad immigrated to the US in the 1980s. Ashfaq Hussain Syed, a relative of Mujtaba who also immigrated to the US from Hyderabad and lives in Naperville, Chicago in Illinois told STOI that he knew Mujtaba from his childhood.