Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad exhorted the people on Tuesday to reject those doing politics on the basis of religion. He said J&K as well as the entire country was going backwards instead of moving ahead in the past seven years.Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party government, he said those treating people on the basis of religion or party affiliation and were unable to provide justice equally had no right to remain in power. “India did not remain as it was seven years before and likewise, J&K did not remain the way it was some three or four years ago. We are witnessing a lot of changes…. We are heading backwards,” Azad said.Addressing a large public meeting at Bhallesa village of Gandoh in Doda district, the Congress leader, without naming the BJP, said people across the country were suffering due to joblessness, inflation and poverty.