Govt’s silence fuelling lawyers’ protest?

Dharamsala: For 32 days now, Dharamsala roads have been reverberating with protest slogans, with lawyers from the local bar association carrying on with their “rasto roko andolan” to demand removal of divisional commissioner Onkar Sharma. On Saturday as well, lawyers halted traffic in front of the district courts at 11:30 am for one hour, as if a daily ritual, and the police reacted accordingly – making alternate route available and booking few lawyers, a daily ritual for them too. The face-off may look local, but it has actually taken greater dimensions as bar associations from other parts of the state too are being dragged into it, besides the local media too being accused of taking sides. Full story