Modi will partake in the fourth Quad Leaders' Summit in Wilmington, Delaware and attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

This incident comes after a thread of temple vandalizations that have occurred in the past year across North America. Perpetrators have damaged property at mandirs from California to New York, including statues of prominent Hindu figures such as Mahatma Gandhi. And this past July, a BAPS mandir in Edmonton, Canada, was similarly defaced.

Modi is the latest in a line of foreign leaders who have met the former president and GOP candidate this year.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said at a campaign event on Tuesday that India was a "very big abuser" of the U.S.-India trade relationship and that he will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week.

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to the Indian diaspora has become an important part of his diplomatic toolkit. During his US visit, 25,000 Indian-Americans registered for a speaking event in New York.