Solution:

• First meeting of the Ezhava Maha Sabha (Greater Ezhava Association) was held at Thiruvananthapuram.

• More than 300 people attended in this session

• The meeting decided to submit a mass petition to the government signed by ten thousand Ezhavas demanding the abolition of the discrimination against them.

• Dr. Palpu himself took the initiative to get the signatures, and on 1896 September 3, the petition, the historically famous Ezhava Memorial, signed by 13176 people was submitted to the government.