Image used for representational purpose only LUCKNOW: The BJP central leadership is learnt to have issued fresh directives to its UP unit to step up efforts to counter the opposition diatribe of mismanagement during the lethal second Covid wave. With crucial assembly elections early next year, the party high command’s concern was conveyed by party national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav to UP unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh and state general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal during a virtual meeting early this week. Top BJP sources said, some party district presidents also participated in the meeting, which was kept away from media glare.