Chicago-based Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar founder of Republican Hindu Coalition has wired USD 449,400 to the Trump Victory Fund. This is the maximum one can donate to the Trump campaign. His wife will send another equal amount to the Trump Victory fund thus becoming “double max” totaling USD 898,800.

Kumar on yesterday has hosted a breakfast reception for Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives and a close aide of Trump. Kumar has also met Trump on Saturday. “That’s just a start. That’s the seed money,” Kumar said.

Kumar praised Trump for his policies on Pakistan and his views on Muslim profiling. “He has to do whatever [it takes] and he is the strongest that has come about in the last 45 years. On national defence, he will be stronger than Reagan (former president Ronald Wilson Reagan),” Kumar said.

"He will be the most pro-India president in Indo-US history," he maintained. "We want to make the 21st century an India-US century." "They (Trump and Modi) are a natural fit and will get along with each other," he said.

Shalabh ("Shalli") Kumar is an Ambala, Punjab-born Indian-American industrialist from Chicago. An electronic engineer (Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, and Illinois Institute of Technology), Kumar made his fortune through AVG Advanced Technologies, a company he founded in the area of automation controls, semiconductors, telecommunications, thick-film hybrids, electronic component manufacturing and distribution.

By Premji