Kohima, Oct. 23: The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) today scored some brownie points in its battle with the Isak-Muivah faction by claiming to have extracted an assurance from Delhi to dismantle all “unauthorised camps” of its rival.

The supervisor of NSCN (K)’s Ceasefire Supervisory Board, Kughalu Mulatonu, said from New Delhi that officials of the Union home ministry assured him and other leaders that NSCN (I-M) members would henceforth be restrained from venturing beyond their designated camps in Nagaland.

The NSCN (K) team is in the capital to streamline the ground rules of the outfit’s ceasefire with the government and bargain for additional designated camps — Mulatonu said the outfit needed at least six more — in the state.

The outfit recently set up two designated camps at Suruhoto in Zunheboto district, 200km from Kohima, and another near Tizit, about 400km from the state capital. Members of the rival faction are reportedly targeting two of these camps.

“We are ready to face the NSCN (I-M) anytime,” Mulatonu said of the danger looming over these camps.

He declared that the NSCN (K) had “enough manpower to repress an assault by rival gunners”.

One of the main grouses of the NSCN (K) is that Delhi has been ignoring it and holding talks with the Isak-Muivah group for a decade.