Karnal, March 14 -- Twenty-five-year-old Aashya Kumar, a software developer with a multinational company (MNC) in Gurugram, is now the youngest councillor of Haryana, having won from the Karnal municipal corporation.

A native of Karnal and daughter of a former two-time councillor Vir Vikram Kumar, she was declared victorious as an independent candidate in the results announced on Wednesday.

She defeated BJP's Payal Arora, also the daughter of a former councillor, by a thin margin of 320 votes in ward number 10, where local BJP MLA Jagmohan Anand resides.

Her elder brother Aakrit Kumar said that Aashya pursued B.Tech and M.Tech from BITS Pilani after which she opted for a job as a software developer with a US-based MNC at Gurugram.

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