The popular Nikki Haley, Indian-American Republican politician and former US envoy to the UN, will be among the star speakers on the first day of the Republican National Convention, according to a list released by the Trump campaign. The four-day RNC will formally nominate 77-year-old incumbent President Donald Trump as the party’s candidate for the November 3 US presidential election. Haley, 48, the two-term Governor of South Carolina, is the only Indian-American leader to be featured in the list of RNC speakers released by the Trump campaign on Sunday. She is considered as one of the potential presidential candidates of the Republican Party post the Trump era. The former US envoy to the UN is close to the Trump family and plans to campaign aggressively in his re-election bid over the next several weeks.

In a statement, the Trump campaign said: ‘Over four nights, President Trump’s 2020 Convention will honour the great American story, the American people that have written it, and how President Donald J Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda has empowered them to succeed.’ The president’s son Donald Trump Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle, an attorney and television news personality, are among the other star speakers on day one of the RNC.