speech saying that the date of commencement of save sabarimala yathra organized by the nda from pandalam to thiruvananthapuram was fixed at short notice to begin on october 10 after the party sensed the plan by a selfish leader from gujarat to stage a march from pandalam raising the sabarimala issue on october 11 pillai was referring to the sabarimala raksha yathra undertaken by antharashtriya hindu parishad ahp led by praveen togadiathe field which would have gone to the congress has now come to our hands the congress and the cpm are now left with no option but to reply to us pillai had said in his speech