diff --git a/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/antlr4/OpenSearchPPLParser.g4 b/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/antlr4/OpenSearchPPLParser.g4
index 32b5f3f17..efeaac85f 100644
--- a/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/antlr4/OpenSearchPPLParser.g4
+++ b/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/antlr4/OpenSearchPPLParser.g4
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ mappingClause
     ;
 
 fieldsCommand
-   : FIELDS (PLUS | MINUS)? fieldList
+   : FIELDS (PLUS)? fieldList
    ;
 
 renameCommand
diff --git a/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/ppl/utils/ArgumentFactory.java b/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/ppl/utils/ArgumentFactory.java
index 43f696bcd..9fb97f4e7 100644
--- a/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/ppl/utils/ArgumentFactory.java
+++ b/ppl-spark-integration/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/ppl/utils/ArgumentFactory.java
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ public class ArgumentFactory {
    * @return the list of arguments fetched from the fields command
    */
   public static List<Argument> getArgumentList(OpenSearchPPLParser.FieldsCommandContext ctx) {
-    return Collections.singletonList(
-        ctx.MINUS() != null
-            ? new Argument("exclude", new Literal(true, DataType.BOOLEAN))
-            : new Argument("exclude", new Literal(false, DataType.BOOLEAN)));
+    return Collections.singletonList(new Argument("exclude", new Literal(false, DataType.BOOLEAN)));
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/ppl-spark-integration/src/test/scala/org/opensearch/flint/spark/ppl/PPLLogicalPlanBasicQueriesTranslatorTestSuite.scala b/ppl-spark-integration/src/test/scala/org/opensearch/flint/spark/ppl/PPLLogicalPlanBasicQueriesTranslatorTestSuite.scala
index 59f5e8eb6..59e755cb9 100644
--- a/ppl-spark-integration/src/test/scala/org/opensearch/flint/spark/ppl/PPLLogicalPlanBasicQueriesTranslatorTestSuite.scala
+++ b/ppl-spark-integration/src/test/scala/org/opensearch/flint/spark/ppl/PPLLogicalPlanBasicQueriesTranslatorTestSuite.scala
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 package org.opensearch.flint.spark.ppl
 
 import org.opensearch.flint.spark.ppl.PlaneUtils.plan
+import org.opensearch.sql.common.antlr.SyntaxCheckException
 import org.opensearch.sql.ppl.{CatalystPlanContext, CatalystQueryPlanVisitor}
 import org.scalatest.matchers.should.Matchers
 
@@ -293,4 +294,33 @@ class PPLLogicalPlanBasicQueriesTranslatorTestSuite
 
     comparePlans(expectedPlan, logPlan, false)
   }
+
+  test("for 0.5-nexus: test fields minus one field") {
+    val context = new CatalystPlanContext
+    val thrown = intercept[SyntaxCheckException] {
+      planTransformer.visit(plan(pplParser, "source=table | fields - A", false), context)
+    }
+
+    assert(thrown.getMessage.contains("Failed to parse query due to offending symbol [-]"))
+  }
+
+  test("for 0.5-nexus: test fields minus multiple fields") {
+    val context = new CatalystPlanContext
+    val thrown = intercept[SyntaxCheckException] {
+      planTransformer.visit(plan(pplParser, "source=table | fields - A, B", false), context)
+    }
+
+    assert(thrown.getMessage.contains("Failed to parse query due to offending symbol [-]"))
+  }
+
+  test("for 0.5-nexus: test fields minus with other commands") {
+    val context = new CatalystPlanContext
+    val thrown = intercept[SyntaxCheckException] {
+      planTransformer.visit(
+        plan(pplParser, "source=table | sort - A | where B > 0 | fields - C | head 1", false),
+        context)
+    }
+
+    assert(thrown.getMessage.contains("Failed to parse query due to offending symbol [-]"))
+  }
 }