Taking cue from the success in Gujarat assembly election, Bharatiya Janata Party president M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said the party would "replicate our Gujarat experience everywhere" as the outcome has "demolished the myth" that the Congress is getting revived on account of its leadership.

Addressing the opening session of the two-day National Executive, he said the message is loud and clear that "in the name of politically motivated secularism, the countrymen are not willing any more to tolerate either the Hindu bashing or the double standards being resorted to by certain political parties."

He said the election will be remembered not only for the "nature and scale of our victory, but also for the viciousness of the anti-Hindutva and... anti-Hindu campaign."

Naidu said that the party should not be apologetic about its ideology of cultural nationalism nor about its firm commitment to the common agenda of the National Democratic Alliance.

"We should firmly expose our adversaries' politics of defaming our party and our ideology, and of compromising on issues that weaken national security," he said.

Appealing to partymen to gear up for the assembly elections in nine states, Naidu said they should plunge headlong into the preparations "leaving nothing to chance and attending to every single detail well in advance."

Turning to the minorities, he asked them to "see through" the "cynical game" of the Congress party's long record of "appeasement of minorityism and injustice for minorities" and forge a new equation of mutual understanding with the BJP.

"Vote bank politics has done incalculable damage to the minorities and it is time they realised it," he said, adding that the BJP had strongly and unequivocally condemned the violence, both Godhra and post-Godhra.

Elaborating on the Gujarat assembly election, he said Chief Minister Narendra Modi "fought like a lion in the face of unprecedented calumny against him and our party" and that it was an "unequal bout" with the Congress and Leftist lobby making it into a "Modi vs Sonia" contest.

Elaborating on the Gujarat poll result, Naidu told the meeting, attended among others by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani and Union ministers and office bearers, that message was clear that in the name of "politically motivated secularism, the countrymen are not willing any more to tolerate either the Hindu-bashing or the double standards being resorted to by certain political parties."

"For us development is the mantra and hence we believe in ushering in prosperity in an atmosphere of peace," he said. "Hindutva is a noble and elevating concept as the Supreme Court has rightly declared." Naidu said. He added that the party is firm in its belief that Hindutva and extremism cannot go together.

Outlining the campaign for the assembly elections, Naidu said there was need to mount a "powerful people's campaign against the non-performance, misrule, inefficiency, corruption, worsening law and order situation and non-fulfilment of promises which is evidenced everywhere in Congress-ruled states."

He said the party must expose how the Congress leaders are engrossed more in in-fighting and power struggles than in the development of their states and the welfare of their people.

Naidu said the Gujarat assembly poll was a choice between forces of "nationalism" and those of "pseudo-secularism". The victory in the assembly election was "not a mere political victory for BJP, but it was a mandate for the ideology that has always held the nation's interest as its core strength," he said.

Naidu said as the Gujarat election process peaked, the national perception crystallised the central issues as terrorism and extremism and political opportunism. "Our political adversaries were rightly recognised as those willing to compromise on national interests for short-term votebank considerations," he said.

Warning dissidents in the party, Naidu said the party would come down heavily on them if they crossed the "Lakshman Rekha" referring to the dissidence in the legislature party in Uttar Pradesh.

He asked party cadres to always bear in mind that BJP was a party with a difference and "every leader in the party shall always be guided by the fact that their behaviour has bearing on the party."

Besides Uttar Pradesh, he said, "the serious developments in Chhattisgarh and Karnataka earlier have deeply disappointed and distressed our karyakartas as well as our supporters."

The party president said it was not enough to harp on the failure of opponents but there was a need for a "mid-term appraisal of the performance of the central government, so that necessary corrective measures could be taken as warranted."