The country's commercial capital began witnessing a vociferous clamour for a ban on the sale of major soft-drink brands, said to be containing pesticides. Some consumer-friendly hotels in south Mumbai began withdrawing the well-known brands in the evening and the Bharatiya Yuva Morcha activists resorted to an agitation in front of the Churgate railway station. As the night-revelers hit various bars in south Mumbai, the owners of many a hotel decided not to serve popular brands of soft-drinks in the light of the controversy unleashed by a survey done by the Centre for Science and Environment, a New Delhi-based NGO. A group of Bharatiya Yuva Morcha activists, who demonstrated in front of the Churchgate station in south Mumbai on Wedneday afternoon, threw bottles of Pepsi and Coke on the road and burnt the effigy of a card-board-made Coke bottle replica.