Former MIC deputy president, Subra, in ICU

Former deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, S Subramaniam, suffers brain haemorrhage.

PETALING JAYA: Former MIC deputy president, S Subramaniam, has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Pantai Hospital Bangsar after suffering a suspected brain haemorrhage.

According to former MIC vice-president, VKK Teagarajan, Subramaniam, 67, collapsed at home after returning from a function last night.

“We’ve been told that he may have suffered a brain hemorrhage but I do not think it is life-threatening.

“His current condition is serious but stable,” Teagarajan told FMT.

It is learnt that Subramaniam will be undergoing surgery today.

Subramaniam, who was formerly the deputy Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister was also once Segamat MP from 1990 until 2004.

He was among the young, well-educated and ambitious personalities injected into MIC’s leadership positions during the 1970s as way of bringing new blood into the party.

He held the post of MIC deputy president for 17 years beginning 1979.

His steady rise in rank also saw him cross-swords with MIC’s seventh and longest-serving president, S Samy Vellu.

The latter dropped Subramaniam as a candidate for the 11th general elections just three days before nomination day on the basis that Subramaniam had enjoyed enough success.

Subramaniam stood to defend his deputy president post in the 2006 party elections but was edged out by the current MIC president, G Palanivel.