Dhaka, April 30 -- Everyone, regardless of religion or race, will equally enjoy their rights in all spheres of life under the current government, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman says.

"The current government does not want to engage in politics based on religion," he said, addressing leaders of the Buddhist community who met him at the Secretariat on Thursday morning on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.

"We do not want to use religion for political interests, and we have never done so in the past. As the home minister mentioned earlier, and I want to emphasise again - religion is one's own, but the right to security belongs to everyone."

"Regardless of religion, caste, ethnicity-whether Bengali or non-Bengali, theists or atheists -everyone ...