Despite the perception Sabarimala issue was the reason for the LDF's drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls in Kerala, Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said his government does not intend to change its stand and would continue to protect women's rights.
As the opposition Congress-led UDF, which won 19 of the 20 Lok Sabha seats, sought to taunt him in the state assembly over the LDF's poor showing, a visibly annoyed Vijayan said if opposing communalism was seen as arrogance on his part, he will continue it.