Modi's image builders have dictators on client list

"Adolf Hitler was a brilliant propagandist. Narendra Modi too believes in the power of image. Which is probably why the chief minister hired a US lobbying firm which has serviced clients like former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and President-for-life of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev. This Washington-based firm, Apco Worldwide, was hired by Modi sometime in August this year, in the run-up to an important Assembly election, to improve his image before the world community. Among its recent clients are Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Communist youth leader-turned-Russian billionaire with mafia links. The firm has a distinction of taking contracts of boosting images of leaders who fell out of favour of their followers..."