Slackening the tone of his speech in Sabarimala issue, Chief Minister Pinaayi Vijayan has said BJP Statepresident P S Sreedharan Pillai's speech itself brought out the agenda of BJP in Sabarimala issue. "When the CPM and the government said that violence and protests are part of the Sangh Parivar's agenda for political gains, no one believed that but now as Pillai himself has revealed it, their intention remains exposed. We shall go to any extent to save Sabarimala and believers, “.

Pinarayi alleged Thantri and Pandalam had more trust in BJP than in government as they didn't turn up for talk convened by the government. "Thantri would have to explain this…

In the leaked video, Pillai is heard saying that Sabarimala was a “golden opportunity” and that others were falling for “BJP’s agenda”., e was speaking at a closed-door state committee meeting of the party’s youth wing.

The BJP leader said Sabarimala was like a puzzle. “We cannot expect it to move along a fixed line,” he said. “It is not in our hands. But we have put forward an agenda and others are gradually falling for it. In the end, it looks like only we and our opposition and the ruling party will be the last people standing.”

Pillai then told the audience that the protests from October 17 to October 22 were “somewhat planned and executed by the BJP”. He said the party’s state general secretaries were deputed to specific locations and “they successfully completed their mission”. “When two women tried to enter the shrine, it was a district general secretary of the Yuva Morcha who mobilised devotees and prevented the move,” he added.

Pillai said Sabarimala’s chief priest Kandararu Rajeevaru had contacted him before declaring that he would shut the temple if customs were violated. The priest was concerned that his move would be contempt of the Supreme Court’s order, he added. The BJP leader said he assured Rajeevaru that a contempt case would not stand and thousands would rally in his support. “I also assured him that if at all a contempt case came up it would be first slapped against us,” Pillai added.

Later in the day, the BJP leader defended his decision to advise Rajeevaru. “So what? I am a lawyer too, he had taken a legal opinion from me,” Pillai told ANI. “Many Communist Party of India (Marxist) ministers have also taken opinion from me and I have fought their cases.”