Former Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Monday said he did not require Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's certificate to prove his secular credentials.

Antony was responding to Vijayan's criticism that it was the Congress leader who was giving an impetus to the BJP/RSS by criticising the state government and the police for creating trouble for the devotees at Sabarimala. Vijayan had said that even the Kerala High Court had given a 'clean chit' to the way the administration handled the Sabarimala issue.