Days after Rahul Gandhi's controversial comments on drug abuse in Punjab, a senior Congress leader today came out in his support, claiming that the virility of men from Punjab has gone down drastically due to drug abuse and alcoholism.        

CWC member Jagmeet Singh Brar claimed that the data compiled by a World Health Organisation Committee has brought to the fore the findings that "the sperm count of men from Punjab has drastically gone down, thanks to drug abuse, alchoholism."        

"The big, macho Punjabi male is losing his vigour and that too fast," he said in a statement, claiming that the Medical Superintendent and Head of Department of Pathhology of the Dayananad Medical College, Ludhiana confirmed it.        

He also said that a leading University in Punjab, whose Vice Chancellor is appointed by the Chief Minister of Punjab, has after a survey claimed that 70 per cent of Punjab men are either drug addicts or suffering from alchohol problem.        

Rahul Gandhi's comment in Chandigarh on October 11 that seven out of 10 youths in Punjab have a drug problem had triggered a controversy with ruling Akali Dal terming the statement "immature"