US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard will be the first cabinet official to visit India. Her meetings will follow up on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and President Donald Trump’s commitment to enhance intelligence sharing. Next week, she will participate in the geopolitical security conference, Raisina Dialogue, in New Delhi, to which PM Modi invited her when they met in Washington last month. The DNI is the head of the US Intelligence Community, comprising intelligence agencies and the intelligence functions of departments and military services. She is a Hindu by religion, although ethnically of Samoan and Irish descent and served in the Army Reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel. She was elected to Congress as a member of the Democratic Party and ran unsuccessfully for the party’s presidential nomination in 2020. She joined the Republican Party and endorsed Trump last year. She will also make stops in Japan, Thailand, and France during her trip. She said in an X post that her trip’s objective was “building strong relationships, understanding, and open lines of communication are vital to achieving President Trump’s objectives of peace, freedom and prosperity”