The reasons for protest are manifold.

• Illegal Possession of Village Land
• Coca Cola's enormously Polluting Waste
• Coca Cola's unjust management against its Employees
• Depletion of Ground Water by Coca Cola for Commercial purposes
• The Shamefully Poor Response of the Government to these Problems

The dharna demands that the Govt should fulfill the following:

1. Cancel the license of Coca Cola company

2. Prohibit Coca Cola company from its daily exploitation of 25 lac liters of ground water

3. Release the public land illegally occupied by the company from the village panchayat of Mehandiganj

4. Stop the pollution caused by the wastes of Coca Cola, and compensate the people of Mehandiganj for the losses of life and crops

5. Deposit the dwindled stamp duty of rupees three crores one and half lac into the treasury immediately

6. Take back all the fake cases into which Coca Cola has dragged our peaceful protesters, and its employees

Updates from the Dharna

• Update from Nandlal on April 18, 2006. He spoke to Gaurav.
• Communication about newspaper reports on falling ground-water levels in the area.
• Update from Nandlal on April 16, 2006. He spoke to Sanjeev.
• Update from Nandlal on April 11, 2006. He spoke to Gaurav.
• Update from Nandlal on April 10, 2006. He spoke to Sanjeev
• Madhu's trip report when she went to help with the German team. - April 05 - 06, 2006
• Update from Nandlal on April 04, 2006. He spoke with Gaurav.
• First three days of Dharna. Nandlal spoke to Anitha and Sandhya.
• Sirish Agarwal's account and pictures of the first day of Dharna. - March 23, 2006
• Madhu's account of the Dharna preparation. Madhu was a former AID-Austin volunteer.