BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday alleged that the government, having failed to tackle militancy, is conspiring to brand their party as a radical organization, reports UNB. “The government with a motive to humiliate its political opponent is trying to establish that BNP is a militant outfit. As part of it, efforts are on to implicate BNP leader MA Quayum in Italian national Cesare Tavella’s murder case,” he said. The BNP leader came up with the allegation while speaking at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office. On September 28 last year, Tavella, an aid worker, was killed at the capital's Gulshan Diplomatic Zone by unknown assailants. Rizvi said the ruling party leader and law enforcers have been making contradictory remarks involving BNP in the incident since Tavella was killed.  “Their conflicting comments have exposed that the government is trying to involve the innocent BNP leader with the incident to make a political gain.” He also said though the militant group Islamic State (IS) took responsibility for the killing after the incident, the government still could not arrest the real offenders. Referring to media reports that chargesheet in the Italian citizen murder will be submitted by this month implicating Quayum in it, he said they are in fear whether their party leader is made a scapegoat only to malign BNP. He urged the government to shelve its plan to implicate ‘innocent’ Quayum in Tavella murder case.