New Delhi, April 18 -- Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called his party workers as the 'backbone and DNA of the party' and hailed them for fighting the ideologies of the BJP and RSS across the country.

Ahead of the first phase of Lok Sabha election on Friday, Rahul Gandhi through a video message to the Congress workers said, "You are the Congress worker, our backbone and the DNA of our party".

"The BJP-RSS are against the idea of India. They are attacking our nation, they are attacking our Constitution, the country's democratic structure, and every single institutions, including the ECI, as well as the legal framework of India. You fight against the ideology of the RSS on the streets, in the villages, and everywhere,...