Shah is likely to chair the plenary meeting of the North Eastern Council (NEC) to be held in Shillong on January 23.

The former CM was reacting to the growing demand that all the 60 MLAs should go to Delhi to aggressively pursue the ILP demand with the central government.

Civil society organisations in the forefront of the ILP movement were wonderstruck by the sudden announcement. Nobody believed then, that it would be served on a platter.