washington a record number of 27 us congressmen will visit india later this month reflecting the growing bipartisan support for strengthening the indous strategic tiesthe top lawmakers from both the republican and democratic parties are visiting india in two separate delegationsdescribing this as an important development navtej sarna indian ambassador to the us said such visit is reflective of the efforts on the part of the us to strengthen and build on the bipartisan support that they have in the us congress for indiaus relationscongressional records indicate that this is the largest ever travel of us lawmakers to indiathe largest delegation of 19 congressmen being organised by the prestigious aspen institute would be in india from february 20 to 25 with stops in new delhi and hyderabadduring the visit the lawmakers are scheduled to have a wide range of meetings from top government officials politicians members of the thinktank bodies and nongovernmental organisationsanother bipartisan congressional delegation or codel of eight lawmakers being led by bob goodlatte chairman of powerful house judiciary committee would be in india from february 20 to 23 visiting new delhi and bangalorethe delegation includes congressman george holding cochair of the india caucus jason smit and dave trottall four are from the republican partythe democratic members to the delegations include congresswoman sheila jackson lee congressmen hank johnson david ciciline and henry cuellarthe visit sarna said would let these lawmakers first hand see for themselves the political vibrancy of india the economic reforms that are happening and also for them to identify potential areas of engagementthis is increasingly important as the new administration comes into he saidwe are very fortunate that there are two delegations totaling 27 congressmen are travelling to india this month which is not a small figure he said