Bengaluru: Former Chief Secretary and ex-Minister J. Alexander passed away in Bengaluru on Friday following brief illness. He was 83 and leaves behind two children and a host of relatives and friends.
Alexander, a native of Kerala and a Karnataka cadre IAS officer, retired as Karnataka Chief Secretary and subsequently entered politics by joining Congress party. He was elected on a Congress ticket from the then Bharathinagar Assembly segment in Bengaluru city in 1999 and served as Tourism Minister in the S.M. Krishna Cabinet.
