The October 2008 cable called Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati a “virtual paranoid dictator” who once sent a private jet to Mumbai to pick up a new pair of sandals for her.

Mayawati told reporters Tuesday that Assange needs to be institutionalized and that the release of the cable amounted to dirty politics.

Mayawati is a powerful leader of the nation’s bottom caste who has been heavily criticized for her governance in India’s most populous state. She faces elections next year.