Shiv Sena leader Neelam Gorhe on Saturday said the protest by disgruntled MSRTC staffers outside NCP chief Sharad Pawar's Mumbai home a day earlier was an "attempt to murder" and the aim was to cause harm to the former Union minister and his kin.

Gorhe, the deputy chairperson in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, told reporters here that Pawar and his kin must be given more security in view of this "attack".