India, Aug. 16 -- Congress Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari on Saturday backed Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah's criticism of the Union territory's governance, calling the dual administration system "structurally built for failure."

During his first Independence Day speech since returning as chief minister, Abdullah made one of his sharpest remarks on the non-restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

He described the dual governance system as structured "not for success" but "for failure" and, for the first time, addressed his government's decisions that remain stalled with the Raj Bhavan.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Manish Tewari wrote, "I can empathise with Omar Abdullah. As an MP from a Union Territory with just a ...