New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced new state-incharges. Satish Poonia has been made new BJP incharge of Punjab while Vinod Tawde will be incharge of Uttar Pradesh. Tarun Chugh will be Gujarat incharge.

Satish, Vinod and Chugh are Rajya Sabha members.

Assembly elections in these three states are schedule next year.

Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel is the UP co-incharge.

The fresh list comes a day after the saffron party overhauled its national team under party president Nitin Nabin, bringing in many new faces and some prominent leaders like former Union minister Smriti Irani as general secretary and former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Ram Madhav as vice president.

The party, which said...