President Joe Biden will wine and dine with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a state visit next month, according to the White House.

"The upcoming visit will affirm the deep and close partnership between the United States and India and the warm bonds of family and friendship that link Americans and Indians together," the White House said Wednesday. "The visit will strengthen our two countries' shared commitment to a free, open, prosperous, and secure Indo-Pacific and our shared resolve to elevate our strategic technology partnership, including in defense, clean energy, and space."

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The program will take place on June 22, with the leaders poised to "discuss ways to further expand our educational exchanges and people-to-people ties, as well as our work together to confront common challenges from climate change to workforce development and health security," the White House added.

Biden and Modi will see each other before that during the Quad summit in Australia next week, alongside their Australian and Japanese counterparts. The outreach coincides with concerns of democratic backsliding in India and increasingly close ties between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping as India overtakes China in population size.

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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was needled last month as to why India was invited to the administration's annual democracy conference.

"It's not a popularity contest," he said. "That's not why we do this. It's not about building somebody's reputation or not. It's about having meaningful discussions about the power of democracy and how democracies can be strengthened, deepened, and how they can grow — grow in — for themselves and grow as a multilateral collection of like-minded nations."