Family members, Cabinet Ministers, MLAs and MLCs, Congress leaders and supporters all turned up in large numbers to offer their best wishes and congratulations to Chief Minister K Rosaiah on his birthday at his residence in Balkampet on Sunday.
The Chief Ministers's 78th birthday celebrations began with priests from the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams offering special prayers and blessings.
After the morning's religious rituals, well-wishers and admirers made a beeline to Rosaiah's residence, and greeted him.
Youth Congress activists too celebrated the Chief Minister's birthday with a huge cake, weighing 78 kg, being presented to him.
Konijeti Rosaiah was born on July 4, 1933, in a middle class agricultural family in Vemuru, near Tenali in Guntur district.