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Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was questioned by the CBI for her alleged involvement in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam after the agency claimed to have got “new evidence” against her.
Mayawati was questioned here by the CBI on Monday to unearth the larger conspiracy in the scam, official sources said.
The CBI has registered 74 FIRs and filed 48 charge-sheets in the NRHM scam.
‘Evasive’During her examination by the CBI officials, 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 Chief Minister. The quizzing of the Bahujan Samaj Party (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 and creation of 100 posts of District Project Officers who were allegedly instrumental in alleged corruption in the implementation of NRHM schemes, they said.
Mayawati was the Chief Minister of the state when the Department of Health and Family Welfare was bifurcated.
‘For political gains’While she or her party was not immediately available for comments, the former Chief Minister had recently accused the Centre of misusing CBI for political gains ahead of Bihar elections and claimed she had no involvement in the case.
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