Mayawati Fumes at WikiLeaks Founder

Bangalore: U.P chief minister, Mayawati fumed at the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by expressing her anger by calling him insane and recommended that he should be sent to a mental asylum as his website reports, that she once dispatched a jet to fetch her favorite sandals from Mumbai, reports Arvind Singh Bisht for Times Of India. The reason for such strong reaction from Mayawati is because of the wikileaks reports which describes about her acts on being impulsive and weird character. Mayawati said that the WikiLeaks founder was spreading a rumors against her. "There is no iota of truth in the cable leaks and this is all a blatant lie to tarnish the image of her government," quipped visibly upset Mayawati. She said the WikiLeaks was playing in the hands of the opposition parties keen to destabilize her. "The owner of WikiLeaks, she said, seemed to have gone mad and deserved to be sent to the mental asylum. She said that Assange should be sent to the mental asylum by the country he belongs to and in case if there was no place for him, he should be sent to UP. "We will put him in the Agra mental asylum," she said. Notwithstanding the attempts being made by the WikiLeaks to defame them, she asserted that she would ensure that both of them govern the state and the party functioning in even more prominence. She lauded them for their contribution to the party and the government and said that falsehood spread by WikiLeaks could not undermine their role in any manner. Notably, the WikiLeaks cables had called Mayawati, a virtual paranoid dictator who feared that she would be assassinated. It added that Mayawati was very corrupt, a statement that was apparently confirmed by Satish Mishra. The cables also spoke about how the seats for elections were sold and how corruption was rampant in UP under Mayawati. However, rebutting all these charges, she said this was being spread only to harm her party's prospects in the coming elections. She blamed the media for carrying such reports without cross checking their authenticity. "In fact, this only shows the mindset of media, which is anti-Dalit," she said. Slamming the WikiLeaks for making personal attacks against her, Mayawati said that she had no knowledge whether an empty jet was sent to pick up a pair of sandals of her choice from Mumbai or whether she had nine cooks including two food tasters. She said this seemed as if the WikiLeaks owner had gone in the Jet to get her the much talked about sandals. This was all cook and bull story, which had been circulated with an intention to damage her party's image. She said it was very irresponsible on part of the TV channels for gleefully putting out these personal details and also criticized the politicians, who had quickly reacted to the WikiLeaks canard for cheap popularity. Rubbishing these rumours, she said the politicians who had said that "I have nine cooks, must be lounging in my household somewhere and washing dishes. This was why they claimed to have such detailed knowledge of my kitchen and household, otherwise, it was not possible," she said.