Amritsar, April 5 -- Sikh organisations on Saturday strongly objected to the pride parade being organised by the LGBTQ community at the Rose Garden locality in Amritsar on April 27 under the name of 'Pride Parade 2025'.

Ridham Chadha, organiser, said, "We started organising such parades in 2019. This is the fourth parade. One parade has already been organised at Chandigarh. We planned to organise it in Punjab and we chose Amritsar to hold it. Nearly 1,000 community members are attending it".

As the video clip of the parade went viral over social media, it drew harsh reaction from the members of the Sikh community, who raised objections to it citing religious sanctity of the city. "This kind of activity is being organised under deep-root...