The major demand is to start the Mangalore- Bangalore passenger train service immediately and to cancel the extension plan of Matsyagandha Express to Thiruvananthapuram. The other demands include to merge Mangalore station with South Western railway under Mysore division, to introduce a new train from Mumbai Central to Mangalore via Vasai and local trains between Mangalore and Karwar, restarting of Janshatabdhi Express, renaming to Mangalore station as Mangalore Central and Kankanady as Mangalore Junction, building of Kankanady- Bajal Railway crossing under/ over bridge immediately, to develop Kankanady station and also Thokkur as a junction for goods traffic and to draw and announce programmes to commemorate centenary celebration of Mangalore Railway Station.

Mangalore MLA Yogish Bhat who spoke on the occasion demanded that there should be people who can speak Kannada fluently at the ticket counter and other places in the station. He pressed the need of renaming Kankanady station as Mangalore Junction as people who travel from the North do not know that Kankanady is in Mangalore.

Chamber former president Subbayya Shetty commented that it takes 18 hours to reach Mangalore from Bangalore by road and that if there were no aeroplanes, the political leaders would not have visited the port city. Many like Chamber President Kumble Narasimha Prabhu, Vice President Srinivas Kamath, Secretary Shekhar Pujari, Treasurer Ahmed Bava, former president Capt John Menezes and Puttur Chamber President Lokesh Hegde took part in the hunger strike from 10 am to 5 pm.

The participating organisations included Udupi, Puttur and Sullia Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Railway Yatri Sanghas and rail Commuters, District Small Scale Industries Association, DK and Udupi district Petroleum Dealers Association, Mangalore Steamer Agents’ Association, DK Wine Merchants Association, and around 25 other organisations from various fields.