The Kerala Lok Ayukta ruling has come as a major relief for the embattled Higher Education Minister R. Bindu who has been in the eye of the storm since the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as the Vice Chancellor of Kannur University.
The verdict has understandably given an upper hand to the Left Democratic Front (LDF) as it adopted an aggressive stance while hitting out at its critics in the wake of the verdict.