Modi will never take any steps to hurt Punjab farmers: Hardeep Puri

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will never take any step that will adversely affect Punjab farmers and Sikhs, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday, citing decisions like opening of the Kartarpur Corridor taken by the central government.

Accusing opposition parties of spreading "lies and illusions" over the new farm laws, the Union civil aviation minister asserted that there was nothing in the new legislations that will affect farmers adversely and added that the MSP and the mandi system would continue to stay.

Addressing a group of farmers through video-conferencing, Puri said the new legislations would allow farmers to sell their crops