India, May 29 -- Dr Archana Gupta, 58, was appointed the BJP's Haryana unit president on Thursday, making her only the second woman to take the party's helm in the state.

Apart from Haryana, BJP president Nitin Nabin also named new state unit chiefs for Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Tripura, in separate notifications issued by the party's general secretary Arun Singh.

Gupta, a radiologist-turned-politician, is the first woman to be named the party's Haryana unit chief in four decades, the first ever state president being Kamla Verma from 1980-83. Former union minister, late Sushma Swaraj, had served as the Haryana unit chief of the Janata Party in 1979.

Born in Atta village in Panipat, she currently resides in Sector 24 in Panipat, and al...