Sleep prevented by powerd

Recently, my M1 MBA was draining out of battery very quickly. I lose 50% charge in an hour, losing about 1% in less than a minute. This was surely not the case before. When I click on the battery bar in the top right it shows VScode using a significant battery, but VScode is not even opened. I searched about it a little and found out that there are some third-party apps preventing it from sleeping.

when i enter pmset -g in the terminal, I get this

System-wide power settings:

Currently in use:

hibernatemode 3

powernap 1

disksleep 10

sleep 1 (sleep prevented by powerd)

Sleep On Power Button 1

ttyskeepawake 1

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

tcpkeepalive 1

standby 1

displaysleep 2

pmset -g assertions gives this:

2021-06-24 01:27:56 +0530

Assertion status system-wide:

BackgroundTask 0

ApplePushServiceTask 0

UserIsActive 1

PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0

PreventSystemSleep 0

ExternalMedia 0

PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 1

NetworkClientActive 0

Listed by owning process:

pid 54903(powerd): [0x0009548a00018000] 00:04:23 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Powerd - Prevent sleep while display is on"

pid 144(WindowServer): [0x0009548b00098002] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle serviceID:100000939 name:AppleHIDKeyboardEve product:Apple Internal Keyb eventType:3"

Timeout will fire in 120 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease

No kernel assertions.

Even if i try to kill the PreventUserIdleSystemSleep by using sudo kill 54903, it comes up again with a different pid.

This is really troubling. I got this laptop just for its battery backup and my work really requires it to last at least a day. Any suggestions or solutions would be great. Thanks.