Body of Baleshwar Bind (37) was found in bushes this morning, police said, adding that he was murdered with sharp-edged weapon.
Bind, who was party's vice-president of Chanabe Assembly seat, left his residence at Bachera Kalan village this morning and hours later he was found murdered.
Agitated over the incident, villagers blocked Allahabad-Mirzapur road and set ablaze two roadways buses and pelted stones on another, police said.
Senior officials have reached the spot and situation was under control, they said.
