Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 70 today and his career didn’t really kick off until his late 40s ⁠— here’s a journey through pictures

• India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is turning 70 years old today.
  
• Even though he’s been a part of politics since he was in his 20s, his career didn’t really take off until the 1990s.
  
• Here's a quick look at the decades building up to Modi becoming the Prime Minister of India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning 70 years old today. Even though he has been in politics since the 1970s, his career didn’t really kick off until the late 1990s— when he was nearly 50 years old.

Here’s a quick decade-wise look at Modi’s rise through BJP’s ranks and everything he did before turning 70: