File image of Dr. Sampat S. Shivangi
| Photograph Credit score: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Eminent Indian-American doctor Dr. Sampat Shivangi has been elected as an official delegate to the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee this month that will formally nominate former U.S. president Donald Trump because the occasion’s presidential candidate.

Mr. Trump, 78, is the presumptive Republican Get together candidate for the presidential election.

An influential Indian-American group chief, Dr. Shivangi, has been elected as a Nationwide Delegate on the conference for the sixth time.

“It’s a nice pleasure and honour to share the information that I’ve been nominated and elected as (an) official delegate on the upcoming Republican Nationwide Conference to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from July 13 to July 19, 2024,” Dr. Shivangi mentioned.

The four-day Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would formally nominate Mr. Trump because the occasion’s candidate for the November 5 presidential election.

The nomination course of could be accomplished by Republican delegates from throughout the nation.

Dr. Shivangi, a lifelong member of the Republican Get together and a founding member of the Republican Indian Council and the Republican Indian Nationwide Council, has been nominated as RNC delegate six consecutive instances.

“This shall be my sixth time serving as a Nationwide Delegate on the Republican Nationwide Conference to appoint the Republican Get together nominee to contest the nationwide presidential election,” he mentioned.

“My nomination started as early as when President George W. Bush was nominated in New York, then-Senator George McCain, Governor Mitt Romney, (and) President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Now once more to re-elect President Donald Trump in 2024 in Milwaukee,” he mentioned.

He’s the nationwide president of the Indian American Discussion board for Political Schooling, one of many oldest Indian American Associations.

Over the previous three many years, he has lobbied for a number of payments within the U.S. Congress on behalf of India by means of his monumental contacts with U.S. Senators and Congressmen.

“I really feel this can be a distinctive honour and a chance for an Indian American to signify the group on the nationwide degree,” he mentioned.

Dr. Shivangi mentioned he could be a part of the luncheon hosted by Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi in honour of the delegates at Northern Lights in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, for the Mississippi delegates.