Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has appointed legal practitioner Keshav Raj Joshi as his personal aide.

Joshi was working as Deuba’s aide and looked after parliamentary party affairs of Nepali Congress.  Joshi will get facilities at par with other government secretaries, it is learnt.

Earlier, PM Deuba had appointed Dinesh Bhattarai as his foreign affairs advisor and Govinda Pariyar to the post of press coordinator.

PM Deuba is yet to announce his political and economic advisor.