New Delhi: The CBI has examined former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati for her alleged role in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in the state. The multi-crore scam took place during the Mayawati regime in which central funds for upgrading medical facilities in the state were allegedly siphoned off.
Sources said Ms Mayawati was questioned here by the CBI to unearth larger conspiracy in the scam. The agency officials were tight-lipped about her examination. They even refused to disclose the time of her examination. The CBI has already booked former UP family welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and the then BSP MLA from Barhaj Assembly constituency (Deoria), Ram Prasad Jaiswal, in connection with the scam.
Mr Kushwaha and Mr Jaiswal were close confidants of Ms Mayawati. During her examination by the agency sleuths, Ms Mayawati is alleged to have evaded answers on crucial questions and even feigned ignorance on some of the decisions taken during her tenure as the CM. The questioning of the BSP chief was done as the probe agency has claimed to have got new evidence against her on bifurcation of the health and family welfare department.
