NRHM: Innocent too implicated,says CM

Yadav added several persons were sent to jail in connection with the NRHM cases and the matter had badly affected the states image at the national level.

Incidentally,the state government has,since May,been sitting over a request of the CBI for permission to prosecute 20 doctors and two clerks in connection with the NRHM scam.

Also,the state government did not suspend Pradeep Shukla,former mission director of NRHM and principal secretary of family welfare,after he was arrested by the CBI on May 10. It was only on Tuesday the state government issued an order,stating that Shukla was deemed suspended after his arrest.

The BJP objected to the CMs statement,saying it could influence the ongoing probe. In a statement,party general secretary Vindhyavasini Kumar said the CM should explain the basis of his claim that some innocent persons had been implicated in the NRHM cases. If the government really believes so,it should place facts before the CBI,he said. He alleged like the BSP government,the SP government,was protecting the corrupt.