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Summary A top Indian politician lashed out at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday.
She said Assange is either insane or being used as a tool of her opponents for releasing US Embassy cables that describe her as megalomaniac and corrupt.An October 2008 cable called Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, a powerful leader of the nation’s bottom caste untouchables, a ‘virtual paranoid dictator’ who once sent a private jet to Mumbai to pick up a new pair of sandals.The cable said Mayawati had institutionalised corruption throughout India’s most populous state, charged potential candidates $250,000 to run for Parliament on her party’s ticket and was obsessed with becoming prime minister. Similar allegations have often been made by her political opponents too, but she has consistently denied them.Mayawati told reporters the WikiLeaks accusations were “malicious, incorrect and obscene”.
