Answer the following question: Facts: - party: parti amanah negara - monarch: sultan azlan shah - predecessor: tajol roslan shaharum -lrb- pr -- pas -rrb- rosli mohd ghazali mohamad osman jailu m. ramachandran - assembly: perak state perak state - birth date: 17 march 1957 - profession: engineer - caption: portrait of nizar jamaluddin - parliament: malaysian - order: 10th - constituency am: changkat jering pasir panjang - spouse: fatimah taat - office: menteri besar of perak - term end: 12 may 2009 5 may 2013 5 may 2013 - name: mohammad nizar jamaluddin - birth place: kampar malaysia -rrb- , perak , federation of malaya -lrb- now - successor: zambry abdul kadir rashidi ibrahim idris ahmad - nationality: malaysian - alma mater: aston university - occupation: politician - residence: sungai rokam , perak - constituency mp: bukit gantang - languages: malay , chinese dialects , tamil , english - children: 7 children - term start: 17 7 april 2009 march 2008 6 may 2013 8 march 2008 - religion: sunni islam Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mohammad nizar jamaluddin .
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dato ' seri ir .haji mohammad nizar jamaluddin -lrb- born 17 march 1957 -rrb- is the former menteri besar -lrb- chief minister -rrb- of the malaysian state of perak , and member of parliament for bukit gantang .nizar is the secretary of the pan-malaysian islamic party -lrb- pas -rrb- perak 's branch .nizar was appointed as menteri besar on 17 march 2008 but was ousted in january 2009 .he was the first , and remains the only , menteri besar of perak not from the barisan nasional coalition .his appointment followed the 2008 general election , in which the pakatan rakyat coalition , comprising the democratic action party -lrb- dap -rrb- , the parti keadilan rakyat -lrb- pkr -rrb- and his own party , pas , won a majority of the seats in the perak state legislative assembly .appointed by the crown prince of perak raja nazrin shah over two other candidates , datuk ngeh koo ham and jamaluddin mohd radzi , his appointment was initially controversial , as his party was the smallest of the three pakatan rakyat parties in the state assembly .he was removed as menteri besar just over a year later , following defections from pakatan rakyat coalition to barisan nasional that gave the latter a majority in the assembly and sparked a constitutional crisis .nizar is an engineering graduate from aston university in birmingham , united kingdom .he took over the chief minister post from datuk seri diraja tajol rosli mohd .ghazali of barisan nasional .