Eight years after agreeing to a ceasefire with New Delhi, the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) Tuesday said the outfit was seriously considering scrapping the peace deal because of the Centre’s lack of sincerity.
According to a report carried in The Telegraph, Kughalu Mulatonu, an emissary of the outfit, said over phone that “discussions are on among our leaders, including chairman S.S. Khaplang and prime minister Kitovi Zhimoni, to abrogate the eight-year-old truce with the Centre due to the indifferent approach of the leaders in dealing with the issues of the NSCN (K)”.
The outfit has been on a ceasefire with Delhi since April 2001 but there have been no talks yet.
Its rival faction, NSCN (Isak-Muivah), has been holding parleys but without any results.
The NSCN (K) accused the Centre of trying to “smoke out” the outfit in collaboration with its rival outfit.
Mulatonu said the Centre and the state government “are forcing us to consider breaking the ceasefire” but warned that the outfit could not be held accountable for the breakdown of the truce.
“The government of India, Neiphiu Rio, Imkong L. Imchen and J. Changkija will be directly responsible for the breakdown of ceasefire,” the rebel leader said.
Imchen is the Nagaland home minister and Changkija is the state’s director general of police. Both have often been accused by the Khaplang faction of patronising its rival.
He said if anyone tried to act “oversmart they will be forced to bite the dust like Hesso Mao”. The NSCN (K) assassinated Mao, a former director general of police, in November 2005, accusing him of a nexus with the NSCN (I-M).
There was no point in the Centre talking to the NSCN (I-M), as the parleys have reached a deadlock and that it should begin negotiations with them to resolve the Naga issue, but without compromising the issue of “sovereignty”, Mulatonu added.
Monday, February 16, 2026