"Sonu Goyal (33) had a political rivalry with some local men. He was attacked with batons last evening in Devri area. He died in the attack," police said today without naming who the suspects were.
Goyal was the Congress General Secretary of Shahabad block unit in Baran district and his wife is a local Sarpanch, the police said.
His body was shifted to a local hospital where the postmortem was conducted. The body could not be handed over to his family today.
PCC President Sachin Pilot condemned Goyal's murder and demanded a high level inquiry into it.
He also said the party has constituted a three-member fact finding committee which will visit Baran and meet his family tomorrow.