Chandigarh, Sept. 17 -- The World MSME Forum on Tuesday wrote to chief minister Bhagwant Mann, urging him to take immediate steps to strictly curb protests against migrant labourers in Punjab. It said such protests were a serious threat to the state's economy. Forum president Badish Jindal alleged that the current protests were part of a conspiracy to destabilise Punjab. "If these protests force migrant workers to leave Punjab, then it is certain that industries will also migrate from here," he said. Jindal wrote that more than 18 lakh migrant labourers were employed across industries, farms, shops and households in Punjab. "Today, 80% of the unskilled labourers in industries of Punjab are migrants, including 8 lakh employed in Ludhiana alone. Migrant labourers also play a big role in agriculture, with most sowing and harvesting work done by them," he said, stressing their contribution to the state's economy. HTC...