Lucknow: With the race for power hotting up in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP top brass today gave unmistakable signals that it would be a return to 'aggressive Hindutva' in a new garb to take on its rivals.

The address of the newly re-elected party chief Rajnath Singh and speeches by other leaders at the National Executive meeting left little doubt that the saffron party was going back to its time-tested formula which had worked wonders in the early nineties catapulting it to the centrestage.

The leaders harped on 'minority appeasement' by the UPA as also the SP governments with Sachar Committee report and Prime Minister's remarks concerning the minorities coming in handy for the bashing.

While the day-long deliberations centred on draft resolutions on 'Muslim appeasement and internal security' and 'betrayal of the aam aadmi', party leaders said the reported threat to Congress President Sonia Gandhi by al-Qaeda should "serve as eye-opener" for the Prime Minister, whose policy is 'soft' on terrorism.

In a desperate attempt to win back its support base, the party has released a CD containing horrific scenes of a cow being slaughtered cruelly, clearly aimed at striking at the sentiments of the Hindus.

The CD, in a way, was a re-enactment of the release of cassettes by the saffron party after the demolition of Babri Masjid showing the Kar Sevaks breaking the structure amidst cries of 'Jai Shri Ram'.

Party stalwarts Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani did not speak on the opening day but are expected to guide the National Council tomorrow.