Chandigarh, July 30 -- Punjab BJP is all set to elect the newly appointed working president Ashwani Sharma as its new state unit chief by mid-August, sources within the party confirmed.

The state unit kick-started organisational polls for the district chiefs last week.

On Tuesday, the party's national vice-president, Rekha Verma, who is incharge of the organisational polls in Punjab, reached Chandigarh to take stock of the internal poll process and directed the state leaders to conclude it by next week.

Senior party leader, who didn't wish to be named, said that after the polls for district presidents, the process for the election of the new state party chief will start.

"Panels from each district are sent to the national party presid...