The Opposition Congress, on Sunday, accused the BJP of running a negative election campaign to hide failures of its governments at the state and Centre.

Speaking with reporters just before the campaigning for the April 23 polls ended, state Congress president Amit Chavda said his party had campaigned on positive issues, while the BJP had resorted to a negative campaign.

"The BJP government has failed on all fronts in the last five years. Unemployment is at record highs. Farmers are in distress. The Congress raised issues concerning the people, but the BJP, instead of giving an account of the work done by it, carried out a negative campaign with cheap remarks," Chavda alleged.

State Congress in charge Rajeev Satav said his party's campaign presented a roadmap for the country and spoke about what it would do on coming to power, while the BJP tried to deflect attention from key issues. The MP from Maharashtra claimed there was unprecedented anger towards the BJP among voters in the state, and that they would support the Congress in the April 23 elections.

"The Congress will win 20 out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat," he claimed.

A senior BJP leader, however, denied the charge, and said his party's campaign revolved around the work done by the Modi-led government.

"It is the Congress which resorted to negative campaigning by dragging in the PM's name in a non-existent scam," he said.