The latest victim in the WikiLeaks series is the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. The leaked US embassy cables which describe Mayawati as an egomaniac, highlight her various whims and eccentricities. It says when she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand. 

The cables say that while she remains extremely popular with her dalit vote base, she is obsessed with becoming the Prime Minister. The cable talks about how a Lucknow journalist related a story about a minister being forced to do sit ups in front of her as penance for not first asking permission to call on UP's governor. Mayawati also removed a civil servant she learned that his daughter had joined the rival Congress party, says the cable.

In another leaked cable of May 2009 when the Lok Sabha elections were underway, Mayawati's trusted officer Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh is quoted telling US Charge d' Affaires Peter Burleigh that Mayawati's opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal was only rehtoric. Singh also reportedly told the Burleigh that he did not foresee Mayawati becoming the Prime Minister after the 2009 parliamentary polls, says the cable. But Singh immediately issued a statement that the reports were baseless.

In a sharp retort the Chief Minister Mayawati today alleged that WikiLeaks owner was either playing in the hands of her political opponents or had gone mad. I would request the government of his country to send him to a mental asylum and if they have no place for him in his country we can put him in our Agra mental hospital, Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow.