Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly condemned the Centre's decision to deny Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy permission to travel to the US. Kharge said the visit was aimed at engaging with the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh diaspora and attracting investments, jobs and industrial growth to the state. He accused the Centre of blocking direct state-level outreach to potential investors and said routing all investments exclusively through the Centre is "fundamentally wrong."