NCP leader Ajit Pawar appealed on Tuesday to protesters seeking quota for the Maratha community in Maharashtra not to resort to killing themselves over the demand and urged them to demonstrate peacefully.

The former Maharashtra minister made the appeal through posts on Twitter but did not refer to any particular incident. His remark comes a day after a protester, Pramod Jaising Hore, allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train in Aurangabad over the quota demand.