If you think there is some 'junk' 'depleting' your resources, you might want to start a new thread since that is not what the Indian government was seeking to do. If a company were putting lead or mercury in their product, any scientist (of which there are millions in India) could prove it with a high school lab kit. Otherwise, this move was an extortion attempt related more to some local turf battle or lack of appropriate bribery than having anything to do with public safety or 'resource' depletion.
But since you were just being sarcastic, I'll laugh along with you.
Well I would have bought into your argument. The only problem is that Pepsi and Coke are the biggest 2 softdrink providers in our market. They are each other's biggest competitors and I have heard of them trying to sabotage each other in India before. The fact is no one else has the clout that these 2 have in the government. There really is no near No. 3. India is not an anti-US country that needs to attack Pepsi and Coke as a symbol of "American hegemony" like the Arabs do.
If like some people say, India wanted to protest America's support for Pakistan, it can blacklist American arms companies that are supplying arms to Pakistant and abr them from participating in Indians contracts which are far more lucrative than the jet deal with Pakistan is. This will effectively cut-off Pakistan from getting arms from Lockheed Martin or Boeing.
India hasn't indirectly arm-twisted the US in the past, people here are concocting conspiracy theories where there are none.