Republican presidential nominee said at Tuesday rally that Narendra Modi would visit him while in US for a session of Quad security group New Delhi has declined to confirm Donald Trump's claim that Narendra Modi will meet with him when the Indian prime minister spends three days in the US starting this weekend.

Modi would be the latest foreign leader or official to visit the former U.S. President as nations grapple with the possibility of Trump returning to power.

The half-victory in the June elections of the prime minister's Bharatiya Janata Party reduced the head of government's room for maneuver, forcing him to form an alliance with unpredictable regional leaders.