Maya needs to speak to US if she's upset with cables: Assange  

MAYAWATI-ASSANGE
     London, Sep 6 (PTI) Hitting back at Indian minister
 Mayawati who wants him to be put in a "mental asylum",
 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Tuesday said the UP Chief
 Minister needs to take up her case with the US if she has a
 problem with the contents of American diplomatic cables that
 painted her as an "egomaniac."
   His statement came hours after Mayawati slammed him over
 the US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks last week that
 described how the BSP supremo once allegedly dispatched her
 empty private jet to fetch her favourite sandals from Mumbai.
       The cables also claimed that the north Indian state Uttar
 Pradesh's Chief Minister Mayawati had food tasters to sample
 her meals and a "security entourage to rival a head of state."
       In a press statement, Assange said that "Mayawati has
 betrayed the rational thought. The question is, has she also
 betrayed the Dalit?"
       "There is no question that the documents (leaked US
 cables) are official papers... from the US embassy. These
 papers have been proven the world over, including by the
 aggressive persecution of our people by Washington," he said.
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       "The allegations within them are made by US diplomats in
 their private communications back to (Secretary of State)
 Hillary Clinton. If Chief Minister Mayawati has a problem with
 the contents of these communications, she needs to take it up
 with Hillary. I ask that Mayawati admit her error and
 apologise," Assange said.
       "Should she fail to do so, she is welcome to send a
 private jet to England to collect me, where I have been
 detained against my will, under house arrest for the last 272
 days. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in
 India, a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a
 range of the finest British footwear."
       Earlier in the day, an enraged Mayawati, speaking to
 reporters in Lucknow, rejected as baseless the allegations
 against her in the cables, saying the "WikiLeaks owner" has
 gone "mad" or either playing into the hands of her political
 opponents.
       "I would request the government of his country to send
 him (Assange) to a mental asylum and if they have no place for
 him in his country we can put him in our Agra (city) mental
 hospital", Mayawati said. PTI HKR
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