Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary: Former PM's rare pictures, number 10 is unmissable

Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20 in 1944 in Bombay. (Photo credits: Twitter/@RahulGandhi)

Rajiv Gandhi was just three when India got independence and his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, became the Prime Minister. (Photo credits: Twitter/@INCIndia)

Rajiv Gandhi reportedly spent his early childhood with his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru in the Teen Murti House in New Delhi. (Photo credits: Twitter/@RahulGandhi)

Rajiv Gandhi briefly went to school at Welham Prep in Dehradun but soon moved to the residential Doon School. (Photo credits: Twitter/@RahulGandhi)

Rajiv Gandhi then went to Trinity College in Cambridge and then to the Imperial College in London. He did a course in mechanical engineering. (Photo credits: Twitter/INCIndia)

Rajiv Gandhi reportedly met Sonia Maino, an Italian who was studying English, at Cambridge. (Photo credits: Twitter)

Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia were married in New Delhi in 1968. (Photo credits: Twitter)

Rajiv and Sonia stayed at Indira Gandhi's residence in the national capital with their two children, Rahul and Priyanka. (Photo credits: Twitter/PriyankaGandhi)

Rajiv Gandhi clicked with his wife Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi. (Photo credits: Twitter)

On returning to India from England, Rajiv Gandhi passed the entrance examination to the Delhi Flying Club and obtained a commercial pilot’s license.

Subsequently, he became a pilot with a domestic national carrier. (Photo credits: Twitter/INCIndia)

Rajiv Gandhi took over the charge of the Congress party in 1984 following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. (Photo credits: Twitter/Rahul Gandhi)

At the age of 40, Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India. (Photo credits: Twitter)

Rajiv Gandhi's mother, Indira Gandhi, was eight years older when she first became Prime Minister in 1966 and his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, was 58 when he had become free India’s first Prime Minister. (Photo credits: Twitter)

Rajiv Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi clicked together. (Photo credits: Twitter)

Rajiv Gandhi entered public life in 1983 after the tragic death of his brother, Sanjay Gandhi, who died in a plane crash. (Photo credits: Twitter)

Rajiv went on to receive the biggest mandate in the nation's history in the 1984 Lok Sabha Elections as a result of which the Congress party bagged a much higher proportion of the popular vote than in the preceding seven elections and captured a record 401 seats out of 508.

Rajiv Gandhi is hailed as the "Father of IT and Telecom Revolution" of India. (Photo credits: Twitter)