New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- Advocate Asmi, 23, was elected unopposed as a member of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday, becoming the youngest-ever member of a State Bar Council in India and the first Generation Z representative to be elected to any State Bar Council, according to the announcement.

Her election was declared by Returning Officer Pardeep Parmar after no other nomination was received by the closing time on Monday, October 26, The Tribune reported.

Asmi filed her nomination for the post of member of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana against a casual vacancy that arose following the elevation of Minderjeet Yadav as a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

No other nomination was received by the deadline on O...