India, April 18 -- Ikato Chishi Swu, whose father Isak Chishi Swu co-founded the National Socialist Council of Nagalim Isak-Muivah, or (NSCN-IM), on Friday announced his decision to join the group's Myanmar-based "eastern flank" run by two Naga rebel leaders Hs. Ramsan and Absalom Raman, saying he saw "no future and no solution to the Naga issue under the present leadership".

In a statement, Swu accused the current leadership of NSCN-IM of straying from the Naga cause and expressed his disappointment at the way the peace talks have been handled since the NSCN-IM and the Government of India signed their first ceasefire agreement in 1997.

Swu said the government started backtracking from the Framework Agreement of 2015 after his father's ...