DATUK S. Subramaniam was a forlorn figure when MIC elections steering committee chairman Datuk K. Vijayanathan announced the results of the party elections. After 25 years as the MIC deputy president, possibly the longest ever number two in a political party, he was voted out in a manner that did not reflect his contributions to the party and community.
This was an unprecedented event in Malaysian political history with the president turning out to be a “one-man demolition squad” to get his deputy, whom he couldn’t work with, out of the way once and for all.