New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will skip 'Invest Karnataka 2025', business summit organised by the Karnataka government in Bengaluru between February 12 and 14.

Kharge on Tuesday wrote to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, informing him that due to budget session of the Parliament, he is not in a position to attend the inaugural ceremony of the summit.

"As you are well aware the budget session of the Parliament is presently on. Owing to my preoccupation with the session, much as I would have desired, I am not in a position to attend the inaugural ceremony of the Global Investors' Meet of Invest Karnataka 2025 at Bengaluru, Karnataka," Kharge said in his letter.

"I am sure that the Global Investors' Meet...