Concerned over the latest census figures showing a decline in sex ratio, cabinet minister Farooq Abdullah says that the day is not far when there "will be no girls to marry and we'll all become gays".

Addressing the India Water Forum in the capital, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, said: "The male sex is growing and women are getting eliminated. The days are not far when there will be no girls to marry and we'll all become gays."