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India’s embassy has signed a 12-month, $1.8 million contract with lobbying firm SHW Partners LLC in Washington. The deal is supposed to strengthen its outreach to the Trump administration. President Donald Trump is the head of the firm and has hired former spokesperson Jason Miller specifically to lobby for India in April 2025.
“SHW provides strategic counsel, tactical planning, and government relations assistance on policy matters before the US Government, US Congress, state governments, academic institutions, think tanks, and any other relevant stakeholders,” the firm said in a disclosure filed with the US Department of Justice on June 17.
According to the disclosures filed by the firm, SHW Partners played a major role in helping India engage with influential officials in the Trump administration following the April 2025 Pahalgam terror and Operation SIndoor in May. The officials included White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby, and then-National Security Council official Ricky Gill.
SHW Partners pitched an interview for Ambassador Vinay Kwatra with Fox News anchor Brett Baier after Operation Sindoor was initiated in the early hours of May 7.
The firm played a prominent role in establishing contact with US departments in June to arrange meetings between External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and senior US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
During July and August last year, the firm also facilitated meetings with White House officials, the US Trade Representative, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to discuss ongoing US-India trade negotiations.
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