Tired of being stood up, MIC deputy president Dr S Subramaniam considers the window for discussion between him and party president G Palanivel "closed".
 
In a statement to Malaysiakini, Subramaniam, for first time, seems to have given up on Palanivel making good on his promises to set up a committee to specifically look into the Registrar of Societies (ROS) directive that MIC re-elects its vice presidents and central working committee (CWC) members.
 
Subramaniam said Palanivel stood him up during a supposed meeting at a Putrajaya hotel on Dec 17 and also did not turn up for a supposed meeting on Jan 7, despite him making "great efforts" to meet the party chief.
 
"Looking at recent developments, it appears evident that the president will not stick to what he had announced on Dec 18," Subramaniam said.
 
"I don't think the committee will be formed and consequently, the window for discussions can be deemed as closed," he added.
 
He said that except for "cursory meetings" at the cabinet, his attempts to meet Palanivel (left) for a detailed discussion had "failed miserably".
 
Subramaniam has consistently said the current MIC crisis should be solved by the promised committee, which was supposed to comprise current MIC leaders and those disgruntled with the mechanism of the party's 2013 elections.
 
Despite ROS issuing a re-election order on Dec 5 and reiterating it in a Jan 6 letter, Palanivel has yet to call for a re-election and instead has continually disputed ROS findings.
 
The re-election order has a grace period of 90 days and half of that period has passed since the letter was first issued.
 
MIC vice-president S Saravanan and Youth chief C Sivaraajh have both claimed difficulty in meeting Palanivel since the crisis began.
 
Palanivel has instead made changes to the MIC leadership line-up, including appointing a new secretary-general and a new strategy director, while discontent against him seems to be growing within the party ranks.