Shalabh "Shalli" Kumar (Hindi: शलभ कुमार; born 24 December 1948) is a Chicago-based Indian-American industrialist and political donor affiliated with the Republican Party.

[6] It featured 9 helicopters forming a groom's party also called a baraat in the Hindu wedding tradition, and music lasting three days featuring Daler Mehndi, RDB Rhythm Dhol Bass of Canada and UK, and Signature (dance group) from UK of Britain's Got Talent fame.

Mr. Kumar’s full biography is written in a book titled “Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarker” published in April 2017.

[8] In 1975 he founded the AVG Group of Companies, which designs and manufactures electronic components and products used in a variety of industries such as automation and telecommunications.

In 2013, NIAPPI and Kumar took Chairwoman of House Republican Conference Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Congressman Aaron Schock, and Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis to visit the then-Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat and future Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invite him to the United States.

[13] TV media[14][15][16][17] at that time characterized this visit as a boost to propel Modi as the front runner for the post of Prime Minister of India.

In 2014, Kumar worked with the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to encourage Indian Americans to run for office and get involved politically.

[citation needed] He was also named Chairman of the Indian American Advisory Council for the House Republican Conference.

Steve Bannon, Chairman Pete Sessions and Mr. Kumar coined the phrase for Narendra Modi as “Ronald Reagan of India”.

[22] In July 2016, Kumar became a public supporter of the Republican candidate Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 Presidential Election, emerging as one of the biggest donors.

I totally agree with former Speaker Newt Gingrich: Mosques should be monitored completely, vetting should be taking place....

It organized a massive rally of Hindu Americans on Oct. 15, 2016 in Edison NJ, three weeks before the election where candidate Trump met with RHC leaders and addressed the gathering.

The RHC also executed a direct mail campaign, targeting Hindu American voters in Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina.

He ran multiple digital ad campaigns in favor of Trump through video & social content targeting Indian-Americans and undecided voters in the battleground states.

In the final three days of the campaign, the RHC made a large digital buy to target undecided Non-Hindu 8 million voters in Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

The story of the Hindu American campaign of 2016 has been written by James Kahrs in a book titled “Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar” in which a candidate for President of the United States and the Nominee of one of the two main political parties in the US, spoke in Hindi and proudly pronounced “We Love Hindus”.

Steve Bannon in a television appearance stated that “Trump would not have been elected President without Mr. Kumar’s support in 2016.”[citation needed] On 5 January, Kumar made a cameo appearance in Washington to attend a farewell party hosted by the Indian Ambassador to the United States Navtej Sarna at his Cleveland Park mansion for the outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

[27] In his brief speech Kumar praised Sandhu, who is leaving for Colombo to take charge as the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka.

He offered to write a forward for Mr. Kumar’s upcoming book: “Chinese Colonization of America and the only man who can stop it.

On November 15, 2023 in Washington DC the Caucus was officially inaugurated in a celebration with its Co-Chairs Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Chairwoman of the Republican House Conference and Chairman Pete Sessions.