Bhattarai appointed PM’s foreign affairs advisor, Bhandari principal personal secretary

Kathmandu, Nov 12 . Dr Rajan Bhattarai has been appointed the foreign affairs advisor to the Prime Minister and Indra Bhandari the principal personal secretary.
Bhattarai is a former lawmaker and Bhandari the president of the then CPN (UML) Mechi Kathmandu liaison committee.

According to Dr Kundan Aryal, the Prime Minister’s press advisor, a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Sunday decided to appoint Bhattarai and Bhandari.

Although it is stated that the Cuncil of Ministers has also recommended names for ambassadorial posts to some countries including the neighbouring country, India, the government has not made it officially public.

Press meet scheduled every week 
Meanwhile, preparations have been made to hold regular interaction with the media persons every week regarding the government’s various decisions and assessment of its works.

Dr Aryal said preparations have been made for having interaction between the government spokesperson and journalists in connection with the decisions made by the Council of Ministers as well as other works. The interaction would most probably take place every Thursday.

“It is not that the government is trying to hide the information on the decisions. It is thinking how these could be disseminated in a more effective and systematic way,” Dr Aryal explained. RSS