Breaking his silence, Dr S Subramaniam expressed "shock" over Palanivel’s decision to act on his own in meeting the Registrar of Societies (ROS) over the party's re-election order.
"I was shocked by the revelation that the president had met with the director-general of ROS alongside Senator V Subramaniam (popularly known as Barat Maniam) and passed a letter on behalf of the MIC on Dec 24," he said.
In the Dec 18 emergency meet, the party agreed that Subramaniam must accompany Palanivel to meet ROS.Palanivel, however, had acted on his own in communicating with ROS thereafter, including writing to the ROS on Jan 2 appealing for an extension to conduct re-elections.
Subramaniam also said that Palanivel had not responded to his requests for a meeting for weeks now.
"It was decided that the president and myself would go to the ROS with those decisions (made at the meeting), as a way forward to resolve the issues," he said.
"Since that day I had sent numerous text messages to the president requesting him to set up the committee (to look into ROS issue), and initiate discussions. I had requested to meet him," he added.
The health minister said that he did not "have answers" to the questions being posed to him by party members regarding Palanivel's actions.
"Frankly I don't have answers to the questions being directed at me. Only the president knows the answers," he said in a statement.
Subramaniam hoped that "good sense" would prevail and consultations would still occur in the future.
Meanwhile, in a joint statement, two MIC senators and a former MIC Youth chief also expressed "shock" at Palanivel still being in "denial mode" about accepting the outcome of the ROS investigations.
"But rather he is claiming the losers as minorities who are dissatisfied in a democratically held election causing the party to be in this situation with ROS," said the statement issued by senators Jaspal Singh and S Vigneswaran as well as former Youth chief T Mohan.
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